20703052 - LABORATORY: FILM CRITICISM

learning the general frame of narrative, estetic and stylistic pattern of comedy films since the classic age to the sixties - how it shows itself in the films of authors in the title - students attending the workshop will write several papers as reviews of the films showed, facing the task to use different numbers of words. The papers will be analyzed and discussed during the lessons: comments, remarks, confrontantions will establish basic rules of writing on films and the special effort to use the nature and the skills of the viewer as a source of expressing himself writing on a film.
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Programme

The workshop will not only be about theoretical training, but will also focus on practice. The first lesson will be used to get to know the students, and to offer an introductory overview of the profession of criticism today. In the following lessons there will be screenings of short films and clips of feature films to be analyzed in class in groups, and then the students will be asked, as an assignment, to write a short review. These lessons will also address the IT aspects for the correct insertion and publication of reviews and/or essays online; the creation of video essays and the ability to present a critical analysis orally.

Core Documentation

Alberto Pezzotta, La critica cinematografica, Carocci.
Gianni Rondolino e Dario Tomasi, Manuale del film, Utet.
Fernaldo Di Giammatteo, Storia del cinema, Marsilio.
Paolo Bertetto, L'interpretazione dei film, Marsilio.
Additional material will be given to students during class.

Attendance

Attendance is regulated by art. 4, paragraph 2 of the Course of Study Teaching Regulations

Type of evaluation

The exam will be held as follows. A short essay (on a genre, a theme or an author) agreed with the student at the end of the course will be required at the end of the course. While the oral will take place at the final exam. The grade will be the sum of the evaluation of the written and oral.