Università Roma Tre

The course aims to propose an artistic path in French cinema of the 30s: tendencies, authors, and the most significant films. Between avant-garde and realism: the experience of Jean Vigo. Literature, cinema, society in Front Populaire's France. The label of "poetic realism". The major films by Clair, Renoir, Carné, Duvivier, Grémillon.

TEXTS:
Giorgio Tinazzi (edited by), Il cinema francese attraverso i film, Carocci, Roma 2011 (pp. 9-113);
André Bazin, Jean Renoir, Mimesis, Milano-Udine, 2012 (ebook edition 2018);
Giacomo Ravesi, L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934). Immagini del desiderio, Mimesis, Milano-Udine, 2016.
A selection of texts, edited by the teacher, available at the beginning of the course at the photocopy shop of via G. Rocco 11. The copy shop carries out shipments throughout Italy. For information: copylp2009@gmail.com or 06.5759751.

For non-attending students: Denis Brotto, Jean Vigo. Opera completa, Mimesis, Milano-Udine, 2018.

FILMOGRAPHY:
Germaine Dulac: La coquille et le clergyman (1928).
Jean Vigo: À propos de Nice (A proposito di Nizza, 1930); Taris, roi de l’eau (Taris, o del nuoto, 1931); Zéro de conduite (Zero in condotta, 1933); L’Atalante (1934).
René Clair: Sous les toits de Paris (Sotto i tetti di Parigi, 1930); Quatorze Juillet (Per le vie di Parigi, 1933).
Jean Renoir: Boudu sauvé des eaux (Boudu salvato dalle acque, 1932); Toni (1935); Une partie de campagne (La scampagnata, 1936); La Règle du jeu (La regola del gioco, 1939).
Julien Duvivier: Pépé le Moko (Il bandito della Casbah, 1936).
Marcel Carné: Le Quai des brumes (Il porto delle nebbie, 1938); Le Jour se lève (Alba tragica, 1939).
Jean Grémillon: Remorques (Tempesta, 1941).

Films will be shown in full or in part during lessons. Dvd copies will be available at the Biblioteca "Lino Miccichè", via Ostiense 139.