CINEMA AND CRITICAL WRITING Single channel

Chair (Coordinator) and Rapporteur: ROBERTO DE GAETANO

Lecturers

ROBERTO DE GAETANO

Objectives

The course aims to introduce students to the theory and practice of film criticism, considered as fundamental moments in the construction of the meaning of the film. At the end of the course, students will learn, in addition to knowledge of what criticism is in general, and film criticism in particular, also to critically interpret films and authors.

Programme

Forms of the Novelistic: Contemporary Italian Cinema.

The course will examine the relationship between cinema and critical writing. It will be structured in two parts: the first will analyze the specific nature of critical discourse—situated between the singularity of the work and the creation of general interpretive categories, with Walter Benjamin serving as a key theoretical reference—while the second will explore examples of contemporary Italian cinema through the lens of the "novelistic" category.

Books

Bibliography

W. Benjamin, Il concetto di critica d’arte nel Romanticismo tedesco, Mimesis, Milano, 2017
Roberto De Gaetano, Critica del visuale, Orthotes, Napoli, 2022
Roberto De Gaetano, Il sentimento della vita. Il romanzesco cinematografico italiano, Mimesis, Milano, 2026.

Filmography

Martin Eden di Pietro Marcello
Miss Marx di Susanna Nicchiarelli
La chimera di Alice Rohrwacher
Parthenope di Paolo Sorrentino
L’abbaglio di Roberto Andò
Fuori di Mario Martone

  • Academic year2026/2027
  • Degree program to which the course belongsModern Philology
  • Lesson code10612267
  • Year and semester2nd year - 1st semester
  • Activity typeAttività formative affini ed integrative
  • Academic areaAttività formative affini o integrative
  • SSDL-ART/06
  • Mandatory presenceNo
  • Languageita
  • CFU6 CFU
  • Total duration42 hours
  • Hours distribution42 classroom hours