Targeted talks of variable duration (from one to four hours) available for public and private institutions and for middle and high schools, focused on a reinterpretation of classic academic and scholastics topics through cinema.
Screenwriting Teacher
Talks on Cinema
Here are some titles:
CINEMA AND DYSTOPIA
A talk that compares several dystopian worlds of literature with their transpositions into motion pictures, establishing similarities between those fictional regimes and real twentieth-century totalitarianisms and investigating the founding ingredients of dystopia and the reasons for the growing success of the genre, especially among younger audiences. The talk comes with a rich and constantly updated filmography and targeted texts to delve further into the lecture in class.
(Available on request in two-hour version or three-hour version – recommended).
CINEMA AND MIDDLE AGES
A guided tour through the main feature films dealing with the Middle Ages: a reflection on the relationship between history and cinema that reviews the themes, motifs and recurrences that constitute the distinctive factors of the Middle Ages, with the opportunity to look more closely at their most relevant aspects in relation to school programs. In support, a rich filmography on the subject and targeted texts to delve further into the lecture in class.
(Duration: two hours).
THE TRAGIC HERO IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
From the concept of “cinematographic adaptation” to an analysis of Shakespeare’s fortune in cinema, up to the comparison between different versions of the best-known Shakespearean scenes, created by directors such as Lawrence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa and Aki Kaurismaki.
(Duration: two hours).
THE CINEMA OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI
A journey through the cinema of the great Japanese director. (Available in two-hour or three-hour versions, on request).
THE CINEMA OF KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI
An exploration of the movies of the famous Polish director. (Available in two-hour or three-hour versions, on request).
