| CODE | ITL2202 | ||||||
| TITLE | La storia della televisione italiana | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Italian | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will focus on the history of Italian television from the inception of television broadcasts of RAI (1954) to the present age. Within this history, the meaning of some important television broadcasts within the Italian culture, the way they were perceived by the Italian public and the relationship between Italian literature and television will be examined with a particular focus on the history and the transformations of the Italian television series. The unit will provide an overview of the key-moments in this history with an eye to the most important television series such as “La pisana”, “La coscienza di Zeno” and “I promessi sposi”, inspired respectively by Nievo, Svevo and Manzoni and frequently broadcast on Italian TV. The unit will also present the work of great film-makers as Giacomo Vaccari, Daniele D'anza, Sandro Bolchi, Giuliano Montaldo, Luigi Comencini who often worked in cinema reaching the same results in terms of quality and success at the box office. The last part of the Study-unit will focus on the concept of seriality by underlining the evolution of television series in the contemporary era, in particular the phenomenon of soap-opera, sit-comedies and reality shows. Study-unit Aims: • To provide an overview of the key moments in the history of Italian television. • To introduce students to the basic television language which is used in the analysis of TV series. • To introduce the students to some of the fundamental classics of Italian literature through the perspective of the most important television film-makers. • To discuss the ongoing debate on TV involving writers as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, Alberto Moravia and many others from the fifties till the present. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will: • Be able to critically appraise a TV series through the application of the most important television techniques and styles. • Be able to discuss TV as an art form in its own right but also in relationship with literature. • Have an in-depth knowledge of the tools and techniques of TV language which create meaning. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Enhance their skills in visual analysis via an understanding of the key concepts and the terminology of TV studies. • Develop the skills which are necessary for the analysis of the construction of images and also literary texts. • Transfer the ability of analysing the cultural and ideological ramifications of images in TV drama to the analysis of images in literature and in other art forms. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: • Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni, Che cos'è la televisione, Milano, Garzanti, 2005. • Franco Monteleone, Storia della radio e della televisione in Italia. Un secolo di costume, società e politica, Venezia, Marsilio, 2001. • Enrico Menduni, Televisione e società italiana, 1975-2000, Milano, Bompiani, 2002. • Franco Monteleone (edited by), Televisione ieri e oggi, Venezia, Marsilio, 2006. • Milly Buonanno, La fiction italiana, narrazioni televisive e identità nazionali, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2012. • Sergio Brancato, Senza fine. Immaginario e scrittura della fiction seriale in Italia, Napoli, Liguori, 2007. • Peppino Ortoleva, Maria Teresa Di Marco, Luci del teleschermo. Televisione e cultura italiana, Milano, Mondadori Electa, 2004. • Marcello Aprile, Debora De Fazio (edited by), La serialità televisiva. Lingua e linguaggio nella fiction italiana e straniera, Galatina, Congedo, 2010. A coursepack of critical and literary readings which will be distributed at the beginning of the study-unit. |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Qualifications: Matsec Certificate of Intermediate level of Italian language. | ||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Fabrizio Foni |
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