Università Roma Tre

The course will deal with Michelangelo Antonioni. We will follow his artistic path and explore his working method. We will propose a stylistic in deep analysis of his films. We will consider the main articulations of his aesthetic thinking: the nature of the image, his vision of space and time, forms of modernity, his understanding of social, existential and artistic changes from the Fifties to the Seventies.

TEXTS: Michelangelo Antonioni, Fare un film è per me vivere, Marsilio, Venezia 1994; Giorgio Tinazzi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Il Castoro Cinema, Milano 2002. Non-attending students must read also Sandro Bernardi, Il paesaggio nel cinema italiano, Marsilio, Venezia 2002, with special attention to pages 111-212 involving Antonioni.

FILMOGRAPHY: Gente del Po (1943-1947), Nettezza urbana (1948), L’amorosa menzogna (1949), Superstizione (1949), Cronaca di un amore (1950), I vinti (1952), La signora senza camelie (1953), Le amiche (1955), Il grido (1957), L'avventura (1959), L'eclisse (1962), Il deserto rosso (1964), Blow-up (1966), Zabriskie Point (1970), Professione: reporter (1974).
Films will be shown in full or in part during lessons. Dvd copies will be available at the Biblioteca "Lino Miccichè", via Ostiense 139.