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.
teacher profile teaching materials
– Gianni Rondolino, Luchino Visconti, Torino, UTET
– Selection of essays edited by the teacher (pdf files available on teacher's Moodle platform)
Programme
The course focuses on Luchino Visconti's cinema, exploring the crucial role of landscape in his work. In the first place, it offers an aesthetic and cultural-historical examination of the concept of landscape in both artistic and geographical contexts, investigating its essential characteristics, evolution, and gradual redefinition or resemantization. The class then analyses the representative modes of landscape in films, identifying its more relevant forms, functions, and iconographies. Finally, it offers an in-depth study of the landscape in each of Visconti's works, with particular attention to the roles, compositional strategies, and meanings it assumes over time.Core Documentation
Bibliography:– Gianni Rondolino, Luchino Visconti, Torino, UTET
– Selection of essays edited by the teacher (pdf files available on teacher's Moodle platform)
Type of delivery of the course
Frontal lessons, integrated with screenings of moviesAttendance
Optional, but attendance is strongly recommendedType of evaluation
Written final exam