The course will provide a set of
analyses and theoretical reflections about the main tendencies of contemporary
cinema, focusing on the debate about the biographical and that about the
transmedia narrative.
1) Knowledge and understanding
Students attending the course will be able to distinguish among the different forms (images and issues) of contemporary cinema.
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
They will be able to recognize and interpret different typologies of texts in the contemporary landscape.
3) Autonomy of judgment
They will develop the ability to read critical objects, by making inter-textual and inter-contextual comparisons.
4) Communication skills
They will be able to use the specialized lexicon, proper of the studies in this area.
5) Learning skill
They will be able to orient themselves among the
bibliographic sources and to integrate concepts learned in class both with
autonomous studying and with their own experiences as spectators.
The course is divided into three modules. The first one (A) is dedicated
to a general recognition on the main tendencies about, above all, European and
Anglo-American contexts, in order to map the territory of the new forms and codes
emerged in the last decades.
The second module and the third one (B and C) aim to study two relevant
topics in depth: the undeniable acknowledgement of the “biopic” tendency as new
genre (B) and the transmedia declination of the cinematic adaptations (C).
Module
A – The images of the new millennium (4 CFU)
Text:
Il cinema del nuovo millennio. Geografie, forme,
autori, a cura di A. Cervini, Carocci, Roma 2020, pp. 356.
Module
B – The biographical (1 CFU)
Texts :
G. Tagliani, La
vita e l’azione. Sul carattere moderno del biografico italiano, in Fata Morgana n. 46 (2022), pp. 55-69;
S. Busni, I
due corpi della regina : donna, corona (e diva), in Fata Morgana n. 49 (2023).
Module
C – The adaptations (1 CFU)
Text:
Cinema, letteratura, intermedialità,
a cura di G. Carluccio, A. Masecchia, S. Rimini, Carocci, Roma 2023.
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
