Literature, Arts, Media (Russian)

The course aims to provide the analytical tools to achieve an in-depth knowledge of the evolution of Russian literature of the second half of the 20th century in its relation to the languages of figurative arts and cinema. The course aims to reflect on the influence between literary text and iconographic and filmic text in both official and underground literature during the Soviet era. At the same time, it is intended to observe the interaction between literature and film in the post-Soviet context, identifying the specificities of the different expressive languages of novelists and filmmakers as well as common thematic, aesthetic and poetic tendencies.

Knowledge: The student will acquire in-depth knowledge on the evolution of Soviet literary and cinematographic language, on the various forms of narrative and plot construction, on the dimension of the Soviet and post-Soviet literary and cinematographic character.
Skills: the student will consolidate the ability to analyse and interpret the literary and filmic texts examined; he/she will be able to discuss and argue the texts covered in the course and independently apply the learned method of analysis to other examples and works not analysed. He/She will be able to contextualise the authors, currents and main works of the period studied, use the terminology of literary and film studies appropriately and to highlight similarities and differences between the texts analysed, relating them to their historical-political context and to the main expressive trends of the time.