Topic: Studying an International Auteur: Bernardo Bertolucci.
(2nd 8 weeks course)

The course focuses on one Italian Master, Bernardo Bertolucci, who
is internationally well known and particularly linked with the US.
This monographic course gives the students the possibility to deeply
analyze both the aesthetics and the cinematic techniques of the
director. From Before the Revolution to Stealing
Beauty, Bertolucci’s films give the opportunity to re-read the
whole Italian Cinema through one main case study. The class is
structured on the cinematic analysis of Bertolucci’s main
filmography.

The course will also focus on the notion of the “auteur
film”, will stress the gender perspective view (the female role in
Bertolucci’s Cinema) and deal with the problem of the mode of
production. Strong attention will be paid to the film techniques
(lighting, editing, acting, camera movements etc.) and to the
cinematic language and grammar of Bertolucci’s directorial work.

The films will be screening in Italian with English subtitles or in
English live sound.