The course learning outcome is to develop a picture of the trends of contemporary cinema from the nineties of the twentieth century until today.
Special attention will be paid to the notion of auteur and to the notion of style.
The aim is to provide the learning of critical thinking skills in film analysis which consider:
- historical evolution of cinematographic authorship and its redefinition according to the historical and artistic context (20 hours)
- possibility of connection between artistic identity of the auteur and stylistic and linguistic elements (writing, staging, point of view...) (15 hours)
- relationship between author’s single film and filmography and lines of evolution of contemporary cinema (distribution, organization of film festivals) (15 hours)
- connections between historical processes of the contemporary and narration of the social, political and cultural processes of today’s world (14 hours).
Expected learnings outcomes:
- ability in film analysis
- knowledge of the contemporary cinematographic panorama. Both artistic and academic methodologies
- skills in recognition of elements, stylistic and narrative, which define a coherent and organized cinematographic process.