20711400 - Cinema and landscape

The course focuses on the representation of landscape in Italian cinema and the function it assumes from both narrative and socio-cultural perspectives. The course aims to provide methodological tools to develop critical, historical and theoretical reflection with respect to this iconographical system.
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Programme

In the first place, the course offers a theoretical and historical reflection on the role gained by the landscape in cinema, investigating its essential characteristics, its evolution over time and its gradual redefinition or resemantization. Then the class analyses cinema representations of landscape, identifying the most relevant forms and meanings it takes on within movies. Finally, the course proposes a taxonomy of landscape in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s.

Core Documentation

ATTENDING STUDENTS:
Bibliography:
– Sandro Bernardi, Il paesaggio nel cinema italiano, Venezia, Marsilio, 2002.
– Selection of essays edited by the teacher (pdf files available on teacher's Moodle platform)

Mandatory filmography:
Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna (Luciano Emmer, 1952)
La lupa (Alberto Lattuada, 1953)
Giovani Mariti (Mauro Bologni, 1958)
Adua e le compagne (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1960)
Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Luchino Visconti, 1960)
Il posto (Ermanno Olmi, 1961)
Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962)
Il deserto rosso (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)

Recommended fimlography:
I vitelloni (Federico Fellini, 1953)
La notte brava (Mauro Bolognini, 1959)
Banditi a Orgosolo (Vittorio De Seta, 1961)
Il sorpasso (Dino Risi, 1962)
I basilischi (Lina Wertmüller, 1963)
I fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi, 1963)

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
Bibliography:
– Sandro Bernardi, Il paesaggio nel cinema italiano, Venezia, Marsilio, 2002.
– Selection of essays edited by the teacher (pdf files available on teacher's Moodle platform)

Mandatory filmography:
Gente del Po (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1947)
Cronaca di un amore (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950)
Il grido (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957)
L'avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
La notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961)
L'eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)
Il deserto rosso (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
Blow-up (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
Zabriskie-Point (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)
Professione: reporter (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
Identificazione di una donna (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1982)



Reference Bibliography

– S. Parigi, G. Ravesi (a cura di), Imago 9 – Il paesaggio nel cinema contemporaneo, Roma, Bulzoni, 2014. – M. Lefebvre (edited by), Landscape and film, New York-London, Routledge, 2006.

Type of delivery of the course

Frontal lessons, integrated with screenings of movies

Attendance

Optional, but attendance is strongly recommended

Type of evaluation

Written final exam