HISTORY OF PERFORMING ARTS
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- Academic year
- 2017/2018
- Teacher
- DANIELE SERAGNOLI
- Credits
- 12
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/05
Training objectives
- The course has the main objective to provide a general knowledge of theater culture from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. Through the analysis of different historical periods, the purpose is the acquisition of the main ideas of the theater from every era. For this we examine authors, plays, description of theatrical productions. Ultimate purpose is the acquisition of the idea of theater as a complex phenomenon and not merely literary, especially in social and anthropological.
The skills acquired through the study of matter, therefore, concern the ways in which, in history, the different elements that create the theater (literary text, scenography, playing, staging, theatrical production system, etc.), were organized to realize on stage theatre performances.
The resulting abilities can be spent in a more conscious attendance of theaters, in working at their press or marketing offices, in making properly known the operatic culture. Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- The course is organized in two terms and occurs in the first semester of lectures (September-December 2016).
Term one – “Outlines of theater history from antiquity to the twentieth century”: using audiovisual material is traced a panorama of the scenic tradition and its main historical developments, from classical Greece to medieval scene; the rediscovery of the ancient theater in the Renaissance to the birth of national theaters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the birth of the bourgeois theater in the nineteenth century; the main movements of the theater in the twentieth century.
Term two – “Theatre and cinema”: the course esamines the particular relationship between the arts of the scene and the cinema under the historical and critical point of view: theatricality as a model of communication, cinematographic transposition of theatrical scripts, the art of theatrical actor depicted in cinema, environment and theater life reconstructed through cinematographic communication, theater metaphor as a representation of life and interference with film language.
Students who have to obtain 12 CFU will prepare the whole program; students who have to obtain 6 CFU will only apply themselves to Term one. Didactic methods
- Public lectures with audiovisual exemplification, classroom discussion.
After a first cycle of classes devoted to general elements, the course proceeds by examining several films that show the varied relationship between theater and cinema. For these analyzes is expected to see films made by several directors such as Lubitsch, Pasolini, Welles, Carné, Bergman, Wilder, González Iñárritu, ecc. Learning assessment procedures
- Oral exam: the student must answer at least three questions, through which - making use of the discussions that took place during the course - he must demonstrate on the one hand the acquisition of historical notions, on the other hand a critical capacity in the knowledge of matter (through key-questions, for example “as it was organized the theater in ancient Greece "," when and why comes the comedy of art ", " when and why the relationship between theater and cinema is born", etc..
Normally, the teacher asks at first instance that the student speaks of a topic of his/her choice, bordered and not too general. Then he goes on to ask for a second argument, with equal width and depth . A further question of a third argument, but of more limited and punctual type, usually ends the exam. Reference texts
- Term 1. "Outlines of theater history from antiquity to the twentieth century":
AA. VV., Breve storia del teatro per immagini, Roma, Carocci, 2015
Term 2. "Theatre and cinema":
1) M. PELLANDA, Cinema e teatro. Influssi e contaminazioni tra ribalta e pellicola, Roma, Carocci, 2016, pp. 9-82
2) Various articles and essays on theater in cinema
(dossier for sale at Copylab, Ferrara).
Integrative teaching materials on the teacher's website.
