Program Overview

MOVIE LAB

Overview

The course aims to provide an adequate knowledge of cinematographic and audiovisual language in its development from the origins of cinema to contemporary times. In order to allow a critical approach of analysis that is able to take into account the most relevant historical and theoretical junctures.

Aims and Content

Learning Outcomes

The laboratory aims to offer to students an opportunity to learn specific tools, linked with the main areas of the entertainment disciplines. In particular, the laboratory focusing on television and cinema languages.

Aims and Learning Outcomes

The workshop intends to offer students the opportunity to learn from the inside about the logics, styles and forms of communication in the main areas of the performing arts disciplines, focusing in particular on the evolution of audiovisual language.

Teaching Methods

Lectures with projections and related analyses.

Syllabus/Content

The course is structured through lectures that will also make use of film screenings, or film excerpts, that will be analysed and discussed.

• The history of cinema will be examined from the pioneering era, to the formation and consolidation of the cinematographic language, to the establishment of a 'koinè' of Hollywood matrix, the so-called 'classic cinema', able to impose itself on the different national cinematographies.
• The cinema of the historical avant-gardes and that of the neo-avant-gardes of 'modern cinema' will then be considered, which will be the subject of an in-depth theoretical study from the perspective of depth psychology.
• Finally, we will come to the innovations and problems posed by the digital revolution.

Recommended Reading/Bibliography

• A. Mazzoleni, L'ABC del linguaggio cinematografico, Rome, Dino Audino
• A book of your choice from:
  • P. Bertetto (ed.), Introduzione alla storia del cinema, Torino, UTET
  • S. Zumbo, Il cinema come immagine psichica, Bergamo, Moretti & Vitali

Teachers and Exam Board

• Saverio Zumbo
  • Office hours: At the Savona Campus before classes or by appointment.

Exam Board

• Saverio Zumbo (President)
• Mauro Migliavacca

Lessons

Lessons Start

September 23, 2025

Class Schedule

The timetable for this course is available.

Exams

Exam Description

The examinations will be written in presence. Candidates will be required to carry out the dictated trajectories, related to the topics covered in the course.

Exam Schedule

• Date: January 13, 2026
  • Time: 15:00
  • Location: Savona
• Date: January 27, 2026
  • Time: 15:00
  • Location: Savona
• Date: February 10, 2026
  • Time: 15:00
  • Location: Savona
• Date: May 26, 2026
  • Time: 15:00
  • Location: Savona
• Date: June 9, 2026
  • Time: 15:00
  • Location: Savona
• Date: June 23, 2026
  • Time: 15:00
  • Location: Savona
• Date: July 7, 2026
  • Time: 15:00
  • Location: Savona
• Date: September 8, 2026
  • Time: 15:00
  • Location: Savona

Further Information

Students are requested to regularly consult the course's AulaWeb page.