HISTORY AND PHENOMENOLOGY OF CINEMA
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- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- ALBERTO BOSCHI
- Credits
- 12
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/06
Training objectives
- The course focuses on interdisciplinary themes, such as the relationship between film and literature, music, visual arts etc. More attention is paid here to film genres than to specific film directors.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: The students acquire a full knowledge of specific periods and genres of film history, both classic and contemporary.
ABILITIES: at the end of the course the student should be able to contextualize a cinematic work in the frame of the genre system and understand the complex relationship that cinema has always held with other forms of artistic expression. Prerequisites
- None.
Course programme
- SCIENCE-FICTION NOVEL FROM TEXT TO SCREEN
The course will focus on the relationship between literature and film in science-fiction through the analysis of ten adaptations of well known books issued in different epochs (from early 19th century to nowadays) by classical and modern authors who have deeply influenced the cinematic imagery, such as Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Michael Chrichton. Didactic methods
- In-presence lessons, supported by the use of Power Point presentations and the screening of film scenes. Full screening of 10 films (one per week) that significantly illustrate the main theme of the course.
Learning assessment procedures
- The final exam is oral, and lasts about 15-20 minutes. The students will be asked to reply to some questions (not more than 5) concerning the course topics. Questions may refer both to the contents of the books enumerated in the syllabus and – for those who have attended the classes – to the contents of the lessons. Students may also be asked to relate on the ten films included in the film list.
Reference texts
- 1) Roy Menarini, Cinema e fantascienza, ArchetipoLibri, Bologna 2012
2) Students must choose two novels among the following:
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818
Herbert G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1897
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953
Richard Matheson, The Shrinking Man, 1956
Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers, 1959
Isaac Asimov, Fantastic Voyage, 1966
Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 1968
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1990
Filmography:
Students are required to watch entirely the following films, that will be screened during classes (one per week):
Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
The War of the Worlds, (Byron Haskin, 1953)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, 1957)
Fantastic Voyage (Richard Fleischer, 1966)
Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut, 1966)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill, 1972)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
