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Australian Institute for Mobility Overseas Italian Cinema, Story Australian Institute for Mobility Overseas Italian Cinema, Story-telling & Film 2019 Draft Syllabus Course Information Name: Italian Cinema, Story-telling & Film Teaching Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Institution: Location: Milan, Italy Dates: 29 June – 27 July 2019 Duration: 4 weeks Course contact 70 hours of academic classes plus additional cultural activities hours: and self-study Pre-requisites: Students should have completed at least one year of studies in the following areas: Arts, Media, Creating Writing, or Film & Screen Media Production Course The program is equivalent to 12 ECTS. equivalencies Course Descriptions and Learning Outcomes Academic classes (70 hours) The program is divided into two modules and is taught by Professor Mara Perbellini. Module 1: Creative Italian Storytelling: from Literature to Cinema to other forms of fiction (35 hours) Adaptations have long been a mainstay of Hollywood, Cinecittà and the television networks. Many of the most successful international films are indeed adaptations of novels, plays or true-life stories. This course provides participants with a new knowledge of Italian humanities, from literature to theatre, from cinema to biography. It is a great opportunity to learn creative techniques in writing and discover the Italian culture through the arts of time: poetry, literature, playwriting and screenwriting. The course will analyse some of the most important adaptations of Italian literature for the seventh art, identify the resistance of literature and discover masterpieces of Italian Cinema. Students will gradually develop an understanding towards the changes from the source material to the new text. This course includes a creative experience through literature and cinema: the writer’s lab. Each student will be given tools to write a story and develop it into a short film screenplay. Australian Institute for Mobility Overseas www.aimoverseas.com.au Page 1 of 8 Method of Teaching Lecture and Lab. Readings of stories and excerpts of novels and plays. Screening and analysis of clips of important films adapted from literature, theatre and true-life stories. The source material will be compared to the adaptation, revealing the essence of each medium. Course Assessment Attendance and class participation: 20% Final exam: 40% Creative work: Short story 20% Short film script 20% Course readings and Materials Readings to be completed prior to the course • Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio Required readings • Linda Seger, The art of adaptation: turning fact and fiction into film, Owl Book, NYC 1992. • Robert Mc Kee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting, Harper Collins Publishers, NYC • Luigi Pirandello, The wheelbarrow (short story) • James Joyce, The Dead • Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (some excerpts) • Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen (an excerpt) Required films: • Pinocchio (2002) by Roberto Benigni. • Il divo (2008) by Paolo Sorrentino (some clips in class). Draft Course Structure and Schedule (Note: this is the 2018 schedule to be used as a guide, the 2019 schedule will be provided to you prior to deParture or uPon arrival) Note: Prof. Perbellini will be the main instructor of this course and will teach most of the classes. Prof. Provenzi will teach the lessons highlighted in grey. Week 1 Lesson 1 part 1 Introduction to narrative techniques: clear vision. The dramatic moment. Screening of short film. Lesson 1 part 2 Why we need stories. The different forms of narrative and the beginning of the writing process: “In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit”. Lesson 2 (3 h: 9-11.50 am) Guidelines to short film. Text and subtext. Exercise on location Australian Institute for Mobility Overseas www.aimoverseas.com.au Page 2 of 8 Lesson 3 The importance of having a theme: how to find it in a book and how to find your own story. Characters: their roles, their arc of transformation and how to brainstorm from characters (exercise: let’s build a story together) Lesson 4 Field study Week 2 Lesson 5 Screening of location film. The story triangle. Script format. Lesson 6 The structure of a story: the Hero’s journey as a pattern for epic tales and fairy tales. The example of Pinocchio. The structure of a psychological story: setting, inciting event, unconscious choice, conscious choice, crisis, climax and resolution. * Deadline for submitting your short story summary Lesson 7 Exercise on character part 1. The example of “The wheelbarrow” by Pirandello. Structure. Lesson 8 Narrator and point of view: who tells the story? Exercises on the different types of narration using Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto and Invisibile Cities by Italo Calvino. How to begin and how to end a story: happy ending, tragic ending, open ending. Discussion on your story ideas. * Deadline for short film outline (Sunday) * Watch Pinocchio before Monday 17 July (TBC) Week 3 Lesson 9 The art of adaptation: literature & cinema. The case of “Pinocchio” by Benigni Lesson 10 Feedback on outline. Scene analysis. Australian Institute for Mobility Overseas www.aimoverseas.com.au Page 3 of 8 Lesson 11 The art of descriptions: how do I introduce a character? How do I describe a place? The metaphorical meaning of visual elements in a story. Examples (James Joyce, The Dead; Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities) and exercises. The art of dialogue: how do I write effective dialogue? Examples and exercises. * Deadline for submitting the first draft of your short story Lesson 12 Exercise on character part 2. Creating and shading style, mood and tone. * Deadline for short film screenplay (first draft) Week 4 Lesson 13 Feedback on your screenplays. Rewriting your script. Lesson 14 More feedback on your screenplays. Lesson 15 Adaptation from true life stories: the case of Andreotti. Discussion and analysis of “Il Divo” by Sorrentino as an example of adaptation. Lesson 16 - FINAL EXAM TBC (before midnight) DEADLINE FOR YOUR SHORT STORY AND YOUR SHORT FILM SCRIPT. Module 2: Federico Fellini and Contemporary Italian Cinema (35 hours) The course will introduce students to the magic world of the “director superstar” Federico Fellini, who influenced the art of cinema all over the world. Here’s a quotation from American director David Lynch, to give an example of how influential Fellini was to international directors: “If I had to choose films that represent, for me, examples of perfect filmmaking, the first would be 8 ½, for the way Federico Fellini managed to accomplish with film what mostly abstract painters do – namely, to communicate an emotion without ever saying anything in a direct manner, without ever explaining anything, just by a sort of sheer magic”. After “meeting” the Master, students will discover the main trends and filmmakers in contemporary Italian cinema. Since cinema is a mirror to our world, students will learn a lot about contemporary Italian society through the seventh art. Australian Institute for Mobility Overseas www.aimoverseas.com.au Page 4 of 8 Method of Teaching Screenings of clips from films, film analysis, lectures, discussion of 7 mandatory films to be watched before class. Starting from the second mandatory film, a couple of students will lead the film discussion together with the Professor (students will rotate in this role). Course Assessment Attendance: 20% Class participation: 40% (Including film discussions, paper and film presentation) Final written exam: 40% There will be 7 film screenings throughout the course at Università Cattolica. The films will then be discussed in class with the Professor. Students are required to watch the scheduled films before class for the preparation of film analysis and discussion. Course readings and Materials Required reading (excerpts): • Peter Bondanella, The cinema of Federico Fellini, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1992. • William Hope, Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2010. Required films (with English subtitles): • Le notti di Cabiria (1956) by F. Fellini (screened in class) • La dolce vita (1959) by F. Fellini • Otto e mezzo 8 ½ (1962) by F. Fellini • La vita è bella (1998) by Roberto Benigni. • Io non ho paura (2003) by Gabriele Salvatores • Il racconto dei racconti (Tale of tales, 2015) by Matteo Garrone • Youth (2015) by Paolo Sorrentino. Course Structure and Schedule TBC In the first part of the course, after an introduction on cinema language and Italian cinema, we will focus on Federico Fellini’s career, from his debut as screenwriter during Neorealism to the masterpieces of the ‘50s and ‘60s. We will then explore the boundaries of contemporary Italian cinema with the most significant directors and their movies: Roberto Benigni, Gabriele Salvatores, Matteo Garrone and Paolo Sorrentino (who won for best film in a foreign language at the Academy Awards 2014). Australian Institute for Mobility Overseas www.aimoverseas.com.au Page 5 of 8 Week 1 Lesson 1 Introduction to cinema language. Introduction to Italian cinema and Fellini. Guidelines to film analysis. Lesson 2 Screening of Le notti di Cabiria (1956) by F. Fellini Lesson 3 More on Fellini. Discussion and film analysis of (1): Le notti di Cabiria (1956) by F. Fellini Lesson 4 Cultural activity. • Film to be watched before 11 July: La dolce vita (1959) by F. Fellini Week 2 Lesson 5 More on Fellini Discussion and film analysis (2): La dolce vita (1959) by F. Fellini Lesson 6 More on Fellini. Opening of Otto e mezzo 8 ½ (1962) by F. Fellini. Lesson 7 More on Fellini. Discussion and film analysis (3): Otto e mezzo 8 ½ (1962) by F. Fellini Lesson 8 More on Fellini. • Film to be watched before 19 July: La vita è bella (1998) by Roberto Benigni. Week 3 Lesson 9 Contemporary Italian cinema. Benigni Lesson 10 Discussion and film analysis (4): La vita è bella (1998) by Roberto Benigni. • Film to be watched before 21 July: Io non ho paura (2003) by Gabriele Salvatores. Lesson 11 Salvatores. Australian Institute for Mobility Overseas www.aimoverseas.com.au Page 6 of 8 Lesson 12 Discussion and film analysis (5): Io non ho paura (2003) by Gabriele Salvatores • Film to be watched before 25 July: Il racconto dei racconti (2015) by Matteo Garrone Week 4 Lesson 13 Garrone.
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