Filmology

This university course deals with the idea of film "singularity", which the politique des auteurs leads back to that of its film director. It also deals, though, with the "plurality" of the paths which leads to the realization of a motion picture, often in several versions (sometimes "d'auteur", but not only), investigating the concept of cinematic "auteur" and the legitimacy of its "singular" conception.

At the end of this university course the students will have to be able to approach a film not only in an aesthetic perspective, but also in a more complex, historical and philological perspective, allowding them to reconstruct its genesis, its plurality of contributions and its reception in different historical and cultural contexts.