History of cinema and audiovisual media ERASMUS>HCAM
Learning Objectives
The course introduces the history of cinema and audiovisual media, with a focus on major movements, key authors, national cinemas, and technological and cultural transformations. It provides theoretical tools for the analysis of film texts and spectatorship practices, integrating historical-critical and media perspectives.
Course Contents
• The origins and development of cinematography
• Avant-garde cinema
• Classical Hollywood cinema
• Cinema and modernity
• Film and audiovisual media theories
• The concept of authorship
• Spectatorship practices
• Film genres, actors, and stardom
• Film criticism and cinephilia
• Screens, technologies, and postmodern cinema
• Digital storytelling
Textual and contextual analysis of a set of 5 films (Possibly including The Truman Show, P. Weir (1998), La Science des rêves, M. Gondry (2006), Ready Player One, S. Spielberg (2018)).
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