Cinema and Visual Arts
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Course director
Description
The course explores the relationship between cinema and the visual arts through an intermedial and comparative perspective, looking at a selection of authors who have established dialogues between the filmic dimension and other visual languages, such as painting, photography, sculpture, architecture, video installation, and the tableau vivant.
Among the directors that will be discussed during the course, whose work best expresses intermedial approaches to cinema, are: Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrej Tarkovskij, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Marguerite Duras, Wim Wenders, Harun Farocki, Chantal Akerman, Derek Jarman, Jon Jost, Terrence Malick, Peter Greenaway.
The course will also look at examples of characters filming or taking pictures within the movie itself, providing an opportunity to reflect on “cinema within cinema”, and on phenomena of visual recording and archiving. A further trajectory that will be recalled concerns the assimilation of cinematic languages and techniques by the so-called “staged photography”, of which Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman are among the major exponents.
Considering the cinematic framework also in terms of recollection and memory of the arts, and as atlas and visual archive, the course highlights aspects linked to the temporality of the image, its status and the dynamics and implications linked to its re-use and re-contextualization.
The annual theme of the MLLCI “Naturale / artificiale” (Natural / artificial) will be developed in the terms of the relationships between reality and artistic representation.
Objectives
The course allows students to approach and deepen their understanding of film through its relationship with other visual arts.
Teaching mode
In presence
Learning methods
Lectures
Examination information
Oral during examination period.
Further references and bibliographical materials will be provided during the course.
Bibliography
- Costa, Antonio. Il cinema e le arti visive. Torino: Einaudi, 2022. ((Page selection provided during the course))
- Knowles, Kim. Cinematic Intermediality. Theory and Practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. ((Page selection provided during the course))
- Pethö, Ágnes. Cinema and Intermediality. The Passion for the In-Between. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2020. ((Page selection provided during the course))
Education
- Master in Storia e teoria dell’arte e dell’architettura (120 ECTS), Lecture, Elective course, Elective, 1st year
- Master in Storia e teoria dell’arte e dell’architettura (120 ECTS), Lecture, Elective course, Elective, 2nd year
- Master in Storia e teoria dell’arte e dell’architettura (90 + 30 ECTS), Lecture, Elective course, Elective, 1st year
- Master in Storia e teoria dell’arte e dell’architettura (90 + 30 ECTS), Lecture, Elective course, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Arts in Italian Language, Literature and Culture, Lecture, Elective course, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Arts in Italian Language, Literature and Culture, Lecture, Cinema and Audiovisual Futures, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Corporate Communication, Lecture, Thematic Area: Cinema and Audiovisual Futures, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication and Economics in Marketing and Transformative Economy, Lecture, Thematic Area: Cinema and Audiovisual Futures, Elective, 2nd year
- Master of Science in Communication in Media Management, Lecture, Thematic Area: Cinema and Audiovisual Futures, Elective, 2nd year
