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Communications, Media and Advertising (running until all currently enrolled students will have completed their studies) (Academic Year 2015/2016)

Performing and audiovisual arts in a multimedia society, forms and languages (2017 edition)


Credits: 12
Content language:Italian
Course description
The course explores the languages and forms of both performing arts (theatre) and audiovisual media (television and cinema). Particular attention is devoted to the impact of digitization and technological innovation on languages ​​and genres of entertainment, as well as new models of media experience and consumption. It also provides an overview of the interpretative paradigms and analytical models of audiovisual products.

 

The course is divided into a series of interrelated modules that deal with the characteristics and genres of theatrical performances; the structures and genres of television series; the cinema after the advent of digitalization; the interaction and mutual influences between performing arts and audiovisual media, with particular (but not exclusive) reference to the Italian context; the relationships between audiovisual media and religion; the multimedia production.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the Italian language and films/TV series viewing on a regular basis are required.

Objectives

The course aims to provide students with the knowledge and basic tools to interpret the forms and languages of both performing arts and audiovisual media in the contemporary era. At the end of the course students will be able to situate both theatrical oeuvres and authors and audiovisual products historically; to describe and analyze the formal and linguistic aspects of theatrical oeuvres, television series and film; to contextualize theatrical oeuvres and audiovisual media in the social scenario.

Program

Module I – Forms and languages of theatre

The module consists of a selection of video lessons, taught by Italian dramatist and director Maurizio Scaparro, on the fundamentals of history and language of theater and its relationship with other media (literature, cinema, radio and television). The module concludes with some reflections on the "society of the spectacle" (Enrico Menduni).

 

Module II – Forms and languages of audiovisual media

The second module focuses on the forms and languages of audiovisual media, notably cinema and television. A first section aims at introducing and discussing main aspects in the current multimedia landscape (Ruggero Eugeni). The second section analyses the cultural functions of fiction and the language of seriality (Milly Buonanno). The third section discusses the linguistic development of cinema after the advent of digital technologies and multimediality (Elio Girlanda). The forth section focuses on the relationships between audiovisual media – cinema, television, advertising – and religion and includes case studies offered by professionals of audiovisual multimedia production (Nicola Salvi and Elisabetta Sola).

Book

I module
Recommended (NOT mandatory) readings:

·         Allegri Luigi, Prima lezione sul teatro, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012

·         Balzola Andrea, La scena tecnologica. Dal video in scena al teatro interattivo, Dino Audino, Roma 2011


II module
Mandatory readings:

·         Eugeni Ruggero, La condizione postmediale, La Scuola, Brescia 2015

·         Buonanno Milly (ed.), Tempo di fiction. Il racconto televisivo in divenire, Liguori, Genova 2013

·         Girlanda Elio (ed.), Il precinema oltre il cinema. Per una nuova storia dei media audiovisivi, Dino Audino, Roma 2010

-         Dario E. Viganò et al., readings provided by the instructor (see Didactic Material).

 

Specific guidance on the exam bibliography will be provided during the tutoring activities.

 

Exercises

Exercises on the analysis of media products and experiences will be proposed during the course.

Video lectures of well-known theater and cinema professionals drawn from UniNettuno TV archive (e.g.  Giorgio Albertazzi, Pupi Avati, Mario Monicelli, Ennio Morricone, Lina Wertmüller) will be proposed as suggested supplementary material.

 

Professor/Tutor responsible for teaching
Dario Edoardo Viganò
List of lessons
Maurizio Scaparro
Maurizio Scaparro
Maurizio Scaparro
Maurizio Scaparro
    •  Lesson n. 5: L'Attore  Go to this lesson
Maurizio Scaparro
    •  Lesson n. 6: La regia  Go to this lesson
Maurizio Scaparro
Maurizio Scaparro
Maurizio Scaparro
Enrico Menduni
Enrico Menduni
Ruggero Eugeni
Ruggero Eugeni
Ruggero Eugeni
Milly Buonanno
Milly Buonanno
Milly Buonanno
Milly Buonanno
Milly Buonanno
Milly Buonanno
Milly Buonanno
Elio Girlanda
Elio Girlanda
Elio Girlanda
Elio Girlanda
Elio Girlanda
Elio Girlanda
Elio Girlanda
Elio Girlanda
Elio Girlanda
Elio Girlanda
Dario Edoardo Viganò
Dario Edoardo Viganò
Dario Edoardo Viganò
Dario Edoardo Viganò
Nicola Salvi
Elisabetta Sola