The course aims to provide students with skills related to film grammar through an extended analysis from “classic cinema” to contemporary cinema, in order to investigate aesthetic and stylistic elements and their cultural and political outcomes.
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Provisional filmography: Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), GoodFellas (1990), The Age of Innocencde (1993), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Irishman (2018), all directed by Martin Scorsese.
Programme
The course retraces the different phases of Martin Scorsese's career, ranging from his early student shorts to his first feature films during the New Hollywood period, from his more mature works to his vast documentary production. The constant themes and stylistic metamorphoses of Scorsese's work, a filmmaker poised between modernism and postmodernism, will be discussed in relation to the critical-theoretical reflections on his work that has developed over time. Through the analysis of films and sequences, we will investigate Scorsese's directing in connection with the developments of film language and technology, and the different strategies adopted in relation to the often pressing and censorious demands of the producers. Specific aspects that will be emphasized include: the recurrence of the theme of the double, the reflection on Italian-American identity, the cinephilia that runs through the author's entire production, the relationship with the urban space of New York, the importance of the musical and religious dimensions of Scorsese's inspiration.Provisional filmography: Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), GoodFellas (1990), The Age of Innocencde (1993), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Irishman (2018), all directed by Martin Scorsese.
Core Documentation
Lorenzo Marmo (a cura di), "Martin Scorsese", Venezia, Marsilio 2025 (forthcoming)Attendance
In person classes, attendance not mandatory.Type of evaluation
The students will be evalued through a written exam, consisting of open-ended questions. The language of the exam will be Italian. Exceptionally, Erasmus students may take the test in English. The exam will verify the students' knowledge of both the text and the films in the filmography. teacher profile teaching materials
From silent films to sound films, from color to the competition with television, from the Studio System to New Hollywood, from the dominance of major international industries to the emergence of digital, from 3D to virtual reality, the course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the complex dynamics of American cinema, with particular emphasis on mise en scène and the specific language of film.
The directorial styles of filmmakers from various generations and eras will be analyzed, relating them to their historical and production contexts.
The course will also be intertwined with other initiatives of Roma Tre's "third mission," such as the Palladium Film Festival "CineMaOltre," to which students are strongly encouraged (November 14-16), and several meetings with guests, such as professors Andrea Rabbiito (who will present a newly published volume on Trump's images), and Andrea Miccichè, who will present a volume published by Roma3Press on his father, the founder of Dams Lino Miccichè
Programme
The course program is based on the history of Hollywood cinema from its origins to the new millennium.From silent films to sound films, from color to the competition with television, from the Studio System to New Hollywood, from the dominance of major international industries to the emergence of digital, from 3D to virtual reality, the course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the complex dynamics of American cinema, with particular emphasis on mise en scène and the specific language of film.
The directorial styles of filmmakers from various generations and eras will be analyzed, relating them to their historical and production contexts.
The course will also be intertwined with other initiatives of Roma Tre's "third mission," such as the Palladium Film Festival "CineMaOltre," to which students are strongly encouraged (November 14-16), and several meetings with guests, such as professors Andrea Rabbiito (who will present a newly published volume on Trump's images), and Andrea Miccichè, who will present a volume published by Roma3Press on his father, the founder of Dams Lino Miccichè
Core Documentation
Vito Zagarrio, Storie americane. Il cinema di Hollywood dalle origini a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2025Attendance
Attendance in person is strongly recommended (especially to encourage class discussion), although it is possible to follow the course onlineType of evaluation
Students, with special emphasis on attending students, will be required to take a written exam at the first available exam session of the winter session. Attending students will enjoy a slightly lighter curriculum. From the second exam session onward, exams will be oral only.