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MIRCO MELANCO

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Position

Professore Associato

Structure

Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali: archeologia, storia dell'arte, del cinema e della musica (DBC)

Address

PIAZZA CAPITANIATO, 7 - PALAZZO LIVIANO - PADOVA

Telephone

0498279552

E-mail

mirco.melanco@unipd.it

Notices

HISTORY OF SCREENPLAY (academic year 2024/2025; Master's Degree SPM; 42 hours; 6cfu)

Lessons start on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, Classroom C (Palazzo Maldura/Calfura) at 9:30 am
The last lesson and end of the course (if there are no unforeseen interruptions now) is April 15, 2025

A WRITTEN pre-exam is scheduled with the students attending the course (those who will be present for at least 70% of the lessons = 29 hours, however it is mandatory to be registered in MOODLE - course page) with a date to be set with the same students attending at the end of the course.

Classes will be held in Classroom C every Tuesday and every Wednesday from 9:30 am to 11:45 am. When there are guests, they may also end either at 12:00 pm or at 12:15 pm.

Also in this academic year the course is (like last year) particularly "laboratory" with numerous professional guests who are specialists in the sector. The aim of the course is to explain to the attending students what it means to be a screenwriter today, looking above all at the market and the possible work activities in the multimedia world of audiovisuals. At the beginning of the course the course program will be delivered with the dates on which the guests will be present (the lessons will also be open to an audience other than the attending students).

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FOR DEGREE REQUESTS: it is preferable to speak directly with the interested parties at a reception preferably in person (reservation by email appreciated).

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ID of the teacher ZOOM platform: 567 831 878

Office hours

  • Tuesday from 16:30 to 17:30
    at per tutto l'anno accademico 2024/2025: studio in via Calfura 17- II piano - palazzo Calfura
    E' obbligatorio fissare preventivamente l'appuntamento via email col docente scrivendo almeno 5 giorni prima del ricevimento; SOLO in caso di reale necessità si può chiedere un appuntamento via ZOOM (ID 567 831 878)

Teachings

Publications

Monographs:

Landscapes, Passages and Passions. As the Italian sound cinema has told the transformations of the landscape, Liguori Editore, Naples 2005, pp.

Andy Warhol. The cinema of vain life, Lindau, Turin 2006.

The intelligent conformism of Rodolfo Sonego, Fondazione Ente Spettacolo, Rome 2010.

Giuseppe Taffarel. The poetics of living in the neorealist documentary, Municipality of Valstagna / Wind Region, Cultural Activities and Entertainment Department, Valstagna (Vi) 2012.

Cinema between contaminations of reality and politics, Fondazione Ente Spettacolo, Rome 2020 (in bookstores from the end of January).

The neorealism of Marcella Pedone: photographs and videos of an identity journey in the landscapes of a lost Italy, Casadei Libri, Rome/Padua 2020 (co-written with Romina Zanon).

June 2021: Editing of the special cinema and photography issue of PROTAGONISTI magazine, n. 120, ISBREC. The publication contains four essays by Mirco Melanco (on cinema as a source and agent of history, Mario Bernardo, Rodolfo Sonego, Robert Kramer) and three by Romina Zanon (on photography as a source and agent of history, the feminine gaze of photographic Neorealism, types of photographic representation of the partisan image).

Thesis proposals

for teaching CINEMA DEL REALE (and CINEMA and PHOTOGRAPHY in general)
- Analysis of a documentary film with references to the author, genre and historical period
- Authors of independent American cinema: analysis of the work of authors cited in the book "CINEMA AMONG REAL AND POLITICAL CONTAMINATIONS" (2020, M. Melanco, Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo)
- Analysis of films and authors of Chinese, Korean and Asian cinema in general (from a film to entire filmographies)
- Analysis of European cinema films (from a film to entire filmographies)
- Analysis of Italian cinema films (from a film to entire filmographies)

for teaching HISTORY AND THEORY OF SCREENING (and CINEMA and PHOTOGRAPHY in general)
- The thesis proposals vary from Italian cinema to European, American and Asian cinema and must not necessarily concern themselves with screenwriting and scriptwriters: theses on contemporary authors who have won international festivals in the last months-years are welcome (particularly analysis on authors participants at the Turin Film Festival).
- Analysis of an author or authors of contemporary cinema
- Analysis of scripts and scriptwriters' work.
- Cinema and photography: the work of screenwriters and photographers (or directors of photography)
- Degree thesis on authors, directors, screenwriters of Italian, Asian and American cinema (from the analysis of a film to entire filmographies)