Documentary Cinema

The aim of the course is to introduce the exisisting critical debate around of documentary and the key moments in the history of documentary through the analysis of exemplary cases.
Therefore a thematic and methodological study will be proposed in line with the specialist training objectives of the CdS

The aim of the course is to bring the students to acquire awareness of the difficulty in defining the documentary.
Students will also acquire an understanding of the key moments in the history of the documentary and of Bill Nichols' modes of the representation ( poetic, exposity, observational, participatory, reflexive and performative).
Moreover , at the end of the course the students will be able to place a documentary historical on the basis of its stylistic and representational characters.