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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Programme
The course retraces the different phases of Martin Scorsese's career, ranging from the shorts he shot as a film student to his early feature films during the New Hollywood period, up to his more mature works. We will discuss Scorsese's ouvre, its recurring themes, its stylistic dimension, its relationship with technological metamorphoses, the different strategies he adopted in relation to the producers' demands, and the strong intertextual relationship that connects Scorsese to other filmmakers such as Elia Kazan, John Cassavetes, Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell, Luchino Visconti. Specific aspects that will be emphasized include: the recurrence of the theme of the double, the reflection on masculinity and Italian-American identity, the relationship with the urban space of New York, the crucial role of religion, the importance of the musical dimensions of Scorsese's inspiration.Core Documentation
Lorenzo Marmo (edited by), "Martin Scorsese", Venezia, Marsilio 2025.Attendance
In person classes. Attendance not mandatory, but strongly recommended.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.