Course 2017-2018 a.y.

Classes: 31 (II sem.)

Instructors:
Class 31: JOSEPH EDWARD ROZZO

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 help the student identify significant social-cultural themes within cinematic narrative.

This course offers 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 which have attracted the public's attention for various motives.

For attending students
The course requires attending students to prepare a mid-term paper in English based on the analysis of a video clip.
Details are given on the e-learning site for this course.
At the end of the year, there is a written exam based on class discussions, the selected vision and analysis of a film clip based on cinematographic codes and social theories and the reading requirements.

For non attending students
The course requires non attending students to answer a written exam based on the reading requirements and the selected vision and analysis of a film clip, based on cinematographic codes and social theories.

• P. JONES, L. BRADBURY, S. LE BOUTILLIER, Introducing Social Theory, Polity, 2011.
• E. ROZZO, Cinema and Social Theory: Analysis techniques for Beginning Students, Le Dispense del Pellicano, Egea, 2016.