Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide students with skills related to film grammar and to define the concept of "film direction" from both a technical and historical perspective, to analyze its evolution starting from the analysis of case studies ranging from classical cinema to contemporary cinema.
In the first part of the course the techniques, the direction styles and the staging strategies that contribute to the configuration of dominant representation models in film history will be deepened. In the second part, the focus will be on the work of Francis Ford Coppola. The director's films will be considered as a fertile field of application for testing the stylistic analysis skills acquired in the first part of the course.

- Vito Zagarrio, "Francis Ford Coppola. Un sogno lungo il cinema", Rubbettino Editore, Soveria Mannelli 2020
- Dario Tomasi, "Lezioni di regia. Modelli e forme della messinscena cinematografica", UTET, Torino 2004
- Arcangelo Mazzoleni, "L'ABC del linguaggio cinematografico. Strutture, analisi, figure nella narrazione per immagini", Dino Audino Editore, Roma 2010