Cinema Studies Program
Staff Directory
| Mr Rolando Caputo |
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Associate Lecturer
Room: Hu2, 325
Tel: (03) 9479 2815
Fax: (03) 9479 3638
Email: r.caputo@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA (Hons) La Trobe |
Teaching Areas
CST1MSM: making sense of the movies (2nd semester 2008)
CST2/3SCN: screenplay as narrative form (1st semester 2008)
CST2/3CAS: cinema and sexuality (1st semester 2008)
CST4/5FAT: film as text: spatial Poetics of cinema (2nd semester 2008)
CST2/3CIC: contemporary Italian cinema (not available 2008)
Research Areas
European cinema, particularly Italian and French, both art film and popular genres. Auteurs of interest - Antonioni, Bertolucci, Pasolini, Godard, Robbe-Grillet, Bunuel. Genres - Italian Western, Giallos/thrillers, sexploitation, Genre theory, Film aesthetics and philosophy, Screenplay analysis.
Recent Publications
Book Chapters and Referred Articles.
'Literary cineastes: the Italian novel and the cinema' The Cambridge Companion to the Modern Italian Novel, Ed. Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli, New York: Cambridge University Press 2003.
'Design for Living: J.G. Ballard and the Visionary Present', Experimenta: House of Tomorrow. Ed. Alex Taylor, Bambra Press, Melbourne, 2003.
'Five to Ten: Five Reflections on Abbas Kiarostami's 10'. Senses of Cinema, (electronic journal) <http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/03/29/ten.htmi>. 2003.
'Aldrich, Leone and Vera Cruz: Style and Substance over the Border'. Screening the Past. http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr06oo/rcfrr10g.htm 2000.
'They're a Weird Mob'. 24 Frames: Australia and New Zealand, Wallflower Press, London. Edited Geoff Mayer and Keith Beattie.
Other
'The Plam Tree Line'. Feature length screenplay (final draft stage). Written with assistence from AFC script development grant.
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