Università Roma Tre

The course is part of the mandatory classes for the Film and Media Studies program of the DAMS BA. If the program generally gives the historical and theoretical background to understand all audiovisual forms, the aim of this class (dedicated to first-year students) is to teach the main frameworks for the analysis and interpretation of film and audiovisual texts. The class opts for a historical perspective, which accounts for the different theories, aesthetics, and cultural models involved in the analysis of the various linguistic solutions, film styles and forms from different moments in film history (i.e., classical Hollywood cinema, modern art cinema, postmodernism, post-classic cinema). The course aims to give to its students the framework needed to understand by themselves which modes of analysis are more effective in considering a specific audiovisual text. In conclusion, the class aims to explain how films and images produce their meaning.