Theory and Analysis of Cinematographic Language

This university course introduces to the knowledge of the cinematic language, as well as to the history of its main expressive forms. It also introduces to the analytical tools through which students learn how to "watch" a motion picture, as an art work, but also as a communication device. Namely, this year this course deepen the knowledge of the Nouvelle Vague.

The aim of this course is to provide a good mastery of the technical and descriptive terminology of the discipline, as well as to supply the analytical tools allowing to learn how to "watch" a movie with a critical eye, to analyze it and to understand its way of functioning (space ad time organization, the range of shot scales, editing, language figures, talking and sound strategies etc.). All this in a theoretical, historical and analytical perspective.