Il manuale (in lingua inglese):

Kristin Thompson – David Bordwell, Film History: an Introduction (5th edition), McGraw-Hill, New York 2002.
The study of the textbook is limited to following pages:

1 The invention and early years of Cinema, 1880–1904 (pp. 4–21).
2 The International Expansion of the Cinema, 1905–1912 (pp. 26-43).
3 Hollywood Classicism: The Classical Hollywood Cinema (pp. 56-66).
4 France in the 1920s: The French Impressionist Movement (pp. 74-84).
5 Germany in the 1920s: The Expressionist Movement (pp. 85-100).
6 Soviet Cinema in the 1920s (pp. 101–119).
7 The Late Silent Era in Hollywood, 1920-1928: Studio Filmmaking (pp.123-140).
8 Film Experiment outside the Mainstream Industry (pp. 151-162).
9 The Introduction of Sound (pp. 169-172).
10 The Hollywood Studio System, 1930-1945 (pp. 186-207).
12 Italy: Propaganda versus Entertainment, 1930-1945 (pp. 241-246).
14 The International Experimental Cinema (pp. 277-282).
15 American Cinema in the Postwar Era, 1945-1960 (pp. 298-308).
16 Postwar European Cinema: Neorealism and its Context (pp. 315-325).
20 New Waves and Young Cinemas, 1958-1967 (pp. 385-393).
21 Documentary and Experimental Cinema in the Postwar Era (pp. 420-449).
22 Hollywood’s Fall and Rise: 1960-1980 (pp. 472-473).

Students are required to also watch the following movies:

– Germaine Dulac, La coquille et le Clergyman, 1928.
– Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard, 1950.
– Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943 and At Land, 1944.
– Vittorio De Sica, Ladri di biciclette, 1948.
– Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, 1958.
– Agnes Varda, Cléo de 5 à 7, 1962.

Slide, dispense ed estratti di film saranno forniti durante il corso.