Aim of the class is to investigate the ways in which film, and audiovisual narratives at large, produce an experience of landscape (urban, rural, natural). The discussion will adopt a historical and intermedia perspective, in order to connect the discourse on film to the fields of painting, photography and, last but not least, cartography. The involvement of other critical categories crucial to the debate on spatiality (territory, environment, atmosphere), the class will focus on the relationship between spatial perception and spectatorship.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
The course will examine the diverse ways in which cinema constructs and mediates the experience of landscapes, with particular attention to the dynamics of desire. Throughout its history, cinema has employed places, environments, territories, and atmospheres to convey both romantic love and sensual pleasure. Adopting a transnational perspective and a broad chronological scope, the course investigates the interplay between spatial configurations and configurations of eros. Landscapes—urban, rural, or natural—may function as mirrors of subjectivity and intersubjective relations, as environments evoking absence and sublimation, as cartographies of desire and its non-linear trajectories. Attention to cinematic aesthetics, technological innovations (including color and widescreen formats), and genre-specific imaginaries (melodrama, above all), will be complemented by an intermedial and interdisciplinary approach, aiming to interpret cinematic discourse in dialogue with geographic, cartographic, psychoanalytic, literary, and painterly frameworks. Aesthetic analysis will be integrated by cultural and political reflection, exploring the emergence of plural and non-heteronormative forms of identity.
The final syllabus, including the complete course program, will be made available shortly before the course begins.
Mutuazione: 20711402 Cinema, media ed estetica del paesaggio in Cinema, televisione e produzione multimediale LM-65 R MARMO LORENZO
Programme
Cinema, Landscape, and DesireThe course will examine the diverse ways in which cinema constructs and mediates the experience of landscapes, with particular attention to the dynamics of desire. Throughout its history, cinema has employed places, environments, territories, and atmospheres to convey both romantic love and sensual pleasure. Adopting a transnational perspective and a broad chronological scope, the course investigates the interplay between spatial configurations and configurations of eros. Landscapes—urban, rural, or natural—may function as mirrors of subjectivity and intersubjective relations, as environments evoking absence and sublimation, as cartographies of desire and its non-linear trajectories. Attention to cinematic aesthetics, technological innovations (including color and widescreen formats), and genre-specific imaginaries (melodrama, above all), will be complemented by an intermedial and interdisciplinary approach, aiming to interpret cinematic discourse in dialogue with geographic, cartographic, psychoanalytic, literary, and painterly frameworks. Aesthetic analysis will be integrated by cultural and political reflection, exploring the emergence of plural and non-heteronormative forms of identity.
The final syllabus, including the complete course program, will be made available shortly before the course begins.
Core Documentation
Collection of essays selected by the professor.Attendance
In person classes, attendance not mandatory, but strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
The students will be valued through an oral exam. 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 essays in the syllabus and the films in the filmography. teacher profile teaching materials
The course will examine the diverse ways in which cinema constructs and mediates the experience of landscapes, with particular attention to the dynamics of desire. Throughout its history, cinema has employed places, environments, territories, and atmospheres to convey both romantic love and sensual pleasure. Adopting a transnational perspective and a broad chronological scope, the course investigates the interplay between spatial configurations and configurations of eros. Landscapes—urban, rural, or natural—may function as mirrors of subjectivity and intersubjective relations, as environments evoking absence and sublimation, as cartographies of desire and its non-linear trajectories. Attention to cinematic aesthetics, technological innovations (including color and widescreen formats), and genre-specific imaginaries (melodrama, above all), will be complemented by an intermedial and interdisciplinary approach, aiming to interpret cinematic discourse in dialogue with geographic, cartographic, psychoanalytic, literary, and painterly frameworks. Aesthetic analysis will be integrated by cultural and political reflection, exploring the emergence of plural and non-heteronormative forms of identity.
The final syllabus, including the complete course program, will be made available shortly before the course begins.
Programme
Cinema, Landscape, and DesireThe course will examine the diverse ways in which cinema constructs and mediates the experience of landscapes, with particular attention to the dynamics of desire. Throughout its history, cinema has employed places, environments, territories, and atmospheres to convey both romantic love and sensual pleasure. Adopting a transnational perspective and a broad chronological scope, the course investigates the interplay between spatial configurations and configurations of eros. Landscapes—urban, rural, or natural—may function as mirrors of subjectivity and intersubjective relations, as environments evoking absence and sublimation, as cartographies of desire and its non-linear trajectories. Attention to cinematic aesthetics, technological innovations (including color and widescreen formats), and genre-specific imaginaries (melodrama, above all), will be complemented by an intermedial and interdisciplinary approach, aiming to interpret cinematic discourse in dialogue with geographic, cartographic, psychoanalytic, literary, and painterly frameworks. Aesthetic analysis will be integrated by cultural and political reflection, exploring the emergence of plural and non-heteronormative forms of identity.
The final syllabus, including the complete course program, will be made available shortly before the course begins.
Core Documentation
Collection of essays selected by the professor.Attendance
In person classes, attendance not mandatory, but strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
The students will be valued through an oral exam. 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 essays in the syllabus and the films in the filmography.