Università Roma Tre

CINEMA ABOUT CINEMA
Program: The course aims to analyze the ways in which Italian cinema represented itself: its environment, its places, its industrial and professional machine, its technologies, its divistic figures; its authorial and genre systems, its formal canons, its relationship with the spectator, its ability to reflect the social and cultural discourses. Starting from the concepts of metalanguage, self-reference, reflexivity, intertextuality and interdiscursiveness, we will analyze some significant texts and moments in which Italian cinema describes and theorises itself, its history, its operating mechanics, its social, artistic and cultural roles.

TEXTS: Mario Soldati, 24 ore in uno studio cinematografico, Sellerio, Palermo, 1985; “Il cinema nel cinema”, collection of texts edited by the teacher.
FILMOGRAPHY: Stella del cinema (1931) by Mario Almirante; La signora di tutti (1934) by Max Ophüls; Due milioni per un sorriso (1939) by Carlo Borghesio e Mario Soldati; Dora Nelson (1939) by Mario Soldati; Fuga a due voci (1943) by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia; Bellissima (1951) by Luchino Visconti; La signora senza camelie (1953) by Michelangelo Antonioni; Siamo donne (1953) by Gianni Franciolini, Alfredo Guarini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Luigi Zampa;Il viale della speranza (1953) by Dino Risi; La valigia dei sogni (1954) by Luigi Comencini.
Films will be shown in full or in part during lessons. Dvd copies will be available at the Biblioteca "Lino Miccichè", via Ostiense 139.