In an era in which the narrative and poetic languages are increasingly tense to intermediality, with a strong directionality towards the audiovisual narration, it is important to prepare students to decode the rhetoric by which he film diegesis is built. This rethoric is the basis of languages of all forms of audiovisual narrative, the film, to the drama, to documentaries, to television service, to video games.It is therefore necessary to study the specificity of film language compared to literary. At the end of the study program the student is expected to master the basic elements of film language, with the ability to read the expressive specificity of a film and the differences generated by the translation process, compared to the development of style of a literary text.

1. Introduction on course.

2. The language of film: general considerations. Vision and analysis of segments and an entire movie that represent a significant example of the specificity of film language.

3. The intersemiotic translation.

4. Examples of translation from literary language to the filmic language: Zazie dans le metro by Louis Malle; Medea by Lars von Trier; O Brother Where Art Thou? by Coen Bros.; Portrait of a Lady by Jane Campion.

5. Analysis of a movie significant for the interpretation of the cinematic language.

6. Luciano Bianciardi, La vita agra: analysis of the novel.

7. The cinematic translation of La vita agra by Carlo Lizzani.

8. Alberto Moravia, Il disprezzo: analysis of the novel.

9. The story of the cinematic adaptation of Il disprezzo in Le mépris by Jean Luc Godard.

10. The two versions (the french one and the italian one) of Le mépris by Godard.

5. Any other films illustrating the intersemiotic translation between literature and cinema.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

Frontal lessons, seminars and tutorials.

Course books

The reference literature, the reading of which will be specified by the teacher during the lessons are (also in translation in other languages):

-L. Bianciardi, La vita agra (1962)

-A. Moravia, Il disprezzo (1954)

-other books may be indicated during the lessons.

For the basics of the language of film students will study in full:

-G. Rondolino-D. Tomasi, Manuale del film, Torino, UTET 2006

On differences between literary and cinematic text (also in translation in other languages):

-A Gaudrealt, Du littéraire su filmique: Système du récit, Paris, Colin 1999

The course is scheduled for total vision of the following films:

-Le Mépris di J.-L. Godard (1963)

-La vita agra di C. Lizzani (1964)

-other movies may be indicated during the lessons

Assessment

Written test and oral exmination. A written test is scheduled for every session of exam and is valid only for the oral examinations scheduled in the same session.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

The course is mainly held in Italian. A Facebook Group called Letteratura e cinema 2016/2017 will be created to keep the lecturer and the students in touch.