Sumários
Revision for final test
6 Janeiro 2026, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi
Today we revised the contents of the course in view of the final exam.
Fantômas
18 Dezembro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi
Discussion of Feuillade's Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine: Fantômas as a social phenomenon supported by avant-garde artists; cinema and seriality; seriality and plot structure; the documentary value of the movie and the representation of Belle Époque Paris; René Magritte, Fantômas, and the problem of identity: multiplication and instability (cf. also the first scene).
Introduction to cinema
16 Dezembro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi
Introduction to the history of cinema in France (1900-1930): the Lumières brothers, Georges Méliès, Charles Pathé. Cinema as an industry: the hegemony of France; documentary cinema, the "film d'art", the role of literature. Avant-Garde cinema in the 1920s. The end of silent cinema (1927, The Jazz Singer). The age of realism (1930s). Ricciotto Canudo and the expressive potential of cinema / cinema as a form of art: the idea of the total work of art (Richard Wagner); the setting and nature as character; vision and style in cinema; the écraniste.
Screening and discussion of René Clair's Entr'acte (1924).
Apollinaire - Alcools
11 Dezembro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi
Reading and commentary of "Nuit rhénane" and "Cors de chasse". Final remarks and summary of key points on Alcools.