Course 2014-2015 a.y.

30266 - METHOD AND RESEARCH IN ARTS II - MODULE II (SOCIAL THEORY AND CINEMA)


CLEACC

Department of Social and Political Sciences

Course taught in English

Go to class group/s: 31
CLEACC (6 credits - II sem. - OBS  |  L-ART/06)
Course Director:
JOSEPH EDWARD ROZZO

Classes: 31 (II sem.)
Instructors:
Class 31: JOSEPH EDWARD ROZZO



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

Course Content Summary

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 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 a written exam in English based on the class text and the analysis of specific movies which are listed on-line in the area of e-learning on the site www.unibocconi.it dedicated to this course.
Partial exams are not scheduled.

Textbooks

The final exam is based on in-class discussions as well as the contents of the class text:
  •  J. NELMES, Introduction to Film Studies, Toutledge, London, 2012.
Exam textbooks & Online Articles (check availability at the Library)
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