Course 2012-2013 a.y.

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CLEACC (6 credits - II sem. - OBS  |  L-ART/06)

Course Director:
STEFANO BAIA CURIONI

Course Objectives

This course has three principal objectives:

• Provide the students with a comprehensive understanding of how cinema works both technically and culturally.
• Help the student develop a personal capacity for expressing and analyzing cinematic narrative.
• Teach structural, cultural and linguistic theories which will help the student identify significant social-cultural themes within cinematic narrative.

Course Content Summary

This course will offer the student a complex understanding of cinema: its structure and its meaning.

• Analysis of the cinematic language.
• Study of the roles and professions in the film industry.
• Creating a theoretical basis on which to understand the cultural questions represented through cinema.

The whole course is based on the vision and subsequent in-class discussion of specific films or television programs which have attracted the public's attention for various motives.

Detailed Description of Assessment Methods

The course requires both attending as well as non-attending students to take an oral exam in English based on the class text and the analysis of specific movies which will be listed on-line in the area of e-learning on the site www.unibocconi.it dedicated to this course.

Textbooks

The final exam will be based on in-class discussions as well as the contents of the class text

• How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and Beyond, James Monaco, Oxford University Press, 2009, New York

Exam textbooks & Online Articles (check availability at the Library)

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