Università Roma Tre

Aim of the class is to investigate the ways in which film, and audiovisual narratives at large, produce an experience of landscape (urban, rural, natural). In order to do so, the course will adopt a diachronic and transnational approach, ranging from the silent era to today. The reflection about the technological metamorphoses of the cinematic medium (for example, the introduction of color photography or that of widescreen formats) will be intertwined with an intermedia perspective, connecting the discourse on film to the fields of painting, photography and cartography. Through the involvement of other critical categories crucial to the debate on spatiality (territory, environment, atmosphere), the class will reflect on the relationship between spatial perception and subjectivity, and on the complex layering of the spectatorial experience. Aesthetical observations will also be complemented by cultural, historical and political ones, analyzing landscape in connection with such phenomena as migration and climate change.

The syllabus with the final course program will be made available around the start of the course itself.

Collection of essays selected by the professor.