History And Critics Of Cinema 2023/2024

HISTORY OF CINEMA CINEMA a.a. 2023-24 (MOD. A)

prof. Luca Mazzei

The learning content is to study forms and modalities of the interaction that "cinema", as a medium, has presented in economic and social contexts, in which cinema has also encountered its own history.

Bibliography:

One book for each of the following:

1) Sandro Bernardi, "L'avventura del cinematografo", Venezia, Marsilio, 2007;

or Christian Uva, Vito Zagarrio (a cura di), "Le storie del cinema. Modelli, culture, narrazioni", Roma, Carocci 2020.

2) Federico Pierotti, Federico Vitella (a cura di), "Il cinema dello sguardo. Dai Lumière a Matrix", Venezia, Marsilio  2019;

3)  Cristina Jandelli, "Breve storia del divismo cinematografico", Venezia, Marsilio, 2007;

or  Paola Valentini, "Il suono nel cinema", Venezia, Marsilio, 2006;

or Federico Vitella, "Il montaggio nella storia del cinema", Venezia, Marsilio, 2009.

 Filmography:

1) All the following shorts (available on the web): One  (or more) views by Brothers Lumière (1896-1900); "La voyage dans la Lune" (1902, G, Méliès); "The Life of an American Fireman (1903, E. S. Porter); "The Great Train Robbery" (1903, E.S. Porter); "As Seen Trough a Telescope" (1900, G.A. Smith); "Grandma's Reading Glass" (1900, G.A. Smith); "Mary Jane’s Mishap " G.A. Smith (1903, G.A. Smith).

2) One film for each of the following :

     a) "Cabiria" (1914, G. Pastrone);

     b) "Intolerance" (1916, D. W. Griffith);

     c) "Stacka" (Strike, 1925, S.M. Ejzenstein); or "Bronenosec Potëmkin" (Battleship Potemkin, 1926, S.M. Ejzenstein); or "Cevolek s Kinoapparatum" (he Man with a Movie Camera, 1929 D. Vertov);

     d) "Un chien andalou" (1929, L. Buñuel); or "L'age d’or" (1930, L. Buñuel);

     e) "Das Kabinet des dr. Caligaris"  (The cabinet of dr. Caligari,1920, R. Wiene); or "Nosferatu, eine Simphonie des Grauens" (Nosferatu, a Simphony of Horror, 1922, F.W. Murnau); or "Der Letzte Mann" (The Last Laugh, 1924) di F.W. Murnau; or "Metropolis" (Id., 1927) di F. Lang;

    f) "King Kong" (1933, M.C. Cooper and E.B. Schoedsack); or "Top Hat" (1935, M. Sandrich ); o "Bringing up baby"(1938, H. Hawks ); or "Ninotchka" (1939 E. Lubitsch); or "Stagecoach" (1939, J. Ford);

     g) "Boudu sauvé des eaux " (1932, J. Renoir); or "L'atalante" (1934, J. Vigo ), or "Toni" di  (1935, J. Renoir), or "Une partie de campagne" (1936-1946, J. Renoir);  or "Le jour se lève"  (1939, M. Carnè);

     h) "Quattro passi tra le nuvole" (1942, A. Blasetti ); or "Ossessione" (Obsessions 1943, L. Visconti); o "Roma città aperta" (Rome, Open City, 1945,  R. Rossellini); or "Paisà" (1946,  R. Rossellini); or "Germania anno zero" (1947, R. Rossellini); or "Ladri di Biciclette" (1948, V. De Sica); o "La terra trema" (The Earth Will Tremble, 1948,  L. Visconti); o "Riso amaro" (1949, G. De Santis); o "Umberto D." (1952, V. De Sica);

      i) "Citizen Kane " (1941, O. Welles); o "Dark Passage" (1947, D. Daves ); o "The Rear Window" (1954, A. Hitchcock); o "Written On The Wind " (1956, D. Sirk); or "The Searchers"  (1956, J. Ford);

      l) "À bout de souffle" (Breathless, 1960, J.-L. Godard); or "Le Mépris"  (Contempt,1963, J.-L. Godard );  Les Quatre Cent Coups (The 400 Blows, 1959, F. Truffaut);

     m) "L'avventura" (The Adventure 1960, M. Antonioni ); or "Accattone"  (1960, P.P. Pasolini); or "Il Sorpasso" (1962, D. Risi); or "Il gattopardo" (The Leopard, 1963, Luchino Visconti ); or "I Fidanzati" (1963, E. Olmi); or "Prima della Rivoluzione" (1964, B. Bertolucci ); o "I pugni in tasca" (Fists in the Pocket, 1965, M. Bellocchio);

     n) "Bonnie and Clyde"  (1968, A. Penn); or "Easy Rider"  (1969, D. Hopper); or "A Woman Under The Influence" (1974 J. Cassavetes); or "The Opening Night"  (1977, J. Cassavetes); or "Sugarland Express" (1974, S. Spielberg) ;

     o) "Wild at Heart" (1990, D. Lynch); o "Batman Returns"  (1992, T. Burton); o "Pulp Fiction" (1995, Q. Tarantino)  ; or "Lost Highway" (1997, D. Lynch) ; or "Mulholland Drive" (2001, D. Lynch) ; or "Redacted"  (2007, B. De Palma); or "Standard Operating Procedure" (2008, E. Morris).