Programme

Particularly focusing on the Fifteens and the Sixties, the course analyses Italian ethnographic documentary cinema and its most relevant directors. The second part of the class centers upon Cecilia Mangini’s films, also investigating her relationship with documentary and fiction cinema of that period and, more generally, the cultural production and the socio-cultural context of those years.

Core Documentation

Required bibliography:
– Mattia Cinquegrani, Il cinema di Cecilia Mangini, Venezia, Marsilio, 2024.
– Selection of essays edited by the teacher (2 pdf files available on teacher's Moodle platform)

Required filmography:
Short-film
– Sioux Ghost Dance (William K.L. Dickson, 1894)
– Matrimonio abissino (Roberto Omegna, 1908)
– Matera (Romolo Marcellini, 1951)
– Trance and Dance in Bali (Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, 1952)
– La terra nuova (Francesco De Feo, 1952)
– Lamento funebre (Michele Gandin, 1953)
– Magia lucana (Luigi Di Gianni, 1958)
– Nascita e morte nel Meridione (Luigi Di Gianni, 1958)
– Ignoti alla città (Cecilia Mangini, 1958)
– La passione del grano (Lino Del Fra, 1960)
– L'inceppata (Lino Del Fra, 1960)
– Stendalì (Suonano ancora) (Cecilia Mangini, 1960)
– Maria e i giorni (Cecilia Mangini, 1960)
– La canta della marane (Cecilia Mangini, 1960)
– Divino Amore (Cecilia Mangini, 1960)
– La taranta (Gianfranco Mingozzi, 1961)
– Il male di San Donato (Luigi Di Gianni, 1965)

Full-lenght film:
– Siliva Zulu (Attilio Gatti, 1927)
– Man of Aran (L'uomo di Aran, Robert J. Flaherty, 1934)
– Domani vincerò (Cecilia Mangini, 1969)

Type of delivery of the course

Frontal lessons, integrated with screening of movies

Attendance

Optional, but attendance is strongly recommended

Type of evaluation

Oral final exam. The oral exam can be integrated with a text (about 15.000 characters long) analysing a topic of the class. The text must be given to the teacher at least 7 days before the exam

Programme

Particularly focusing on the Fifteens and the Sixties, the course analyses Italian ethnographic documentary cinema and its most relevant directors. The second part of the class centers upon Cecilia Mangini’s films, also investigating her relationship with documentary and fiction cinema of that period and, more generally, the cultural production and the socio-cultural context of those years.

Core Documentation

Required bibliography:
– Mattia Cinquegrani, Il cinema di Cecilia Mangini, Venezia, Marsilio, 2024.
– Selection of essays edited by the teacher (2 pdf files available on teacher's Moodle platform)

Required filmography:
Short-film
– Sioux Ghost Dance (William K.L. Dickson, 1894)
– Matrimonio abissino (Roberto Omegna, 1908)
– Matera (Romolo Marcellini, 1951)
– Trance and Dance in Bali (Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, 1952)
– La terra nuova (Francesco De Feo, 1952)
– Lamento funebre (Michele Gandin, 1953)
– Magia lucana (Luigi Di Gianni, 1958)
– Nascita e morte nel Meridione (Luigi Di Gianni, 1958)
– Ignoti alla città (Cecilia Mangini, 1958)
– La passione del grano (Lino Del Fra, 1960)
– L'inceppata (Lino Del Fra, 1960)
– Stendalì (Suonano ancora) (Cecilia Mangini, 1960)
– Maria e i giorni (Cecilia Mangini, 1960)
– La canta della marane (Cecilia Mangini, 1960)
– Divino Amore (Cecilia Mangini, 1960)
– La taranta (Gianfranco Mingozzi, 1961)
– Il male di San Donato (Luigi Di Gianni, 1965)

Full-lenght film:
– Siliva Zulu (Attilio Gatti, 1927)
– Man of Aran (L'uomo di Aran, Robert J. Flaherty, 1934)
– Domani vincerò (Cecilia Mangini, 1969)

Type of delivery of the course

Frontal lessons, integrated with screening of movies

Attendance

Optional, but attendance is strongly recommended

Type of evaluation

Oral final exam. The oral exam can be integrated with a text (about 15.000 characters long) analysing a topic of the class. The text must be given to the teacher at least 7 days before the exam