Università Roma Tre

Main themes: Hollywood cinema in the 1940s. Italian cinema in the 1940s and Neorealism. 1950s: film genres in Europe and Hollywood. 1950s: narrative forms and styles. New Waves and art cinema in the 1960s. Experimental films: a few examples. New Hollywood in the 1970s. European cinema in 1970s and 1980s. Blockbusters and global franchises. World cinema and contemporary films.

Presence is strongly recommended. Bibliography and filmography are essential.

Books:
Kristin Thompson & David Bordwell, Film History: An Introduction, McGraw Hill, 2010, chapters 11-20 + Appendix (pp. 173-472 + 525-548)
Vincenzo Buccheri, Il film. Dalla sceneggiatura alla distribuzione, Carocci, 2003

Films:
Mildred Pierce, Michael Curtiz, US 1945
Roma città aperta, Rome Open City, Roberto Rossellini, IT 1945
Rashômon, Akira Kurosawa, JP 1950
All About Eve, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz, US 1950
Domenica d’agosto, Sunday in August, Luciano Emmer, 1950
Singin’ in the Rain, Stanley Donen e Gene Kelly, US 1952
Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, US 1958
Hiroshima mon amour, Alain Resnais, JP-FR 1959
Persona, Ingmar Bergman, SW 1966
Blow up, Michelangelo Antonioni, UK 1966
Je, tu, il, elle, Chantal Akerman, B-FR 1974
Nashville, Robert Altman, US 1975
Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese, US 1976
My Beautiful Laundrette, Stephen Frears, UK 1985
Die Hard, John McTiernan, US 1988
Fire, Deepa Mehta, IND 1996
The Matrix, The Wachowski Brothers, US 1999
Caché, Hidden, Michael Haneke, FR 2005

THE NEOREALISM. MODERN CINEMA AND NOTION OF AUTHORSHIP. THE NOUVELLE VAGUE. THE ITALIAN CINEMA OF ‘60S. THE NEW HOLLYWOOD. CONTEMPORARY CINEMA. FOCUS ON ITALIAN POLITICAL CINEMA.

1. D. BORDWELL, K. THOMPSON, STORIA DEL CINEMA. UN’INTRODUZIONE, MCGRAW-HILL, MILANO 2014 (CAPP. FROM 11 TO 20).
2. G. ALONGE, Il cinema. Tecnica e linguaggio. Un’introduzione, Kaplan, Torino 2011.

FILMOGRAPHY:
Roberto Rossellini, Roma città aperta (1945)
Yasujirō Ozu, Tōkiō Monogatari (Viaggio a Tokio, 1953)
Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo (La donna che visse due volte, 1958)
Jean-Luc Godard, À bout de souffle (Fino all’ultimo respiro, 1960)
Dino Risi, Il sorpasso (1962)
Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-up (1966)
Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver (1976)
Brian De Palma, Blow Out (1981)
Jim Jarmusch, Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
James Cameron, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Terminator 2. Il giorno del giudizio, 1991)
Cristopher Nolan, Memento (2000)