85116 - Introduction to Italian Culture (2) (LM)

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (cod. 9220)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the seminar students will have acquired awareness of peculiar dimensions of Italian culture. Students will show awareness of the research problems in a wide series of topic concerning italian culture such as New Avandgarde in Italy, food and italian identity, migration Italy. Students will demonstrate a sound theoretical framework within which specific research interests could be developed in a interdisciplinary perspective.

Course contents

The course focuses on the contemporary Italian narrative and aims to introduce students to the emergence of a variety of transformations - in production, circulation and reception of stories - affecting the nature, the notion and the function of author, characters, text, novel, originality, adaptation, translation…

Students will be invited to explore a selection of novels, representatives of the new transmedial narrative scene, and explore languages such as illustration, graphic novels, films, TV series and App.

The second part of the course focuses on a specific case study: PINOCCHIO (Le avventure di Pinocchio) by Carlo Collodi (1881), a classical and representative sample of the italian children literature now rediscovered by different artists such as Roberto Innocenti, Lorenzo Mattotti, Ferenc Pinter, Jacovitti, Winshluss and Marco Corona.

Readings/Bibliography

Part I – NEW TRENDS IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN NARRATIVE

Lucia Quaquarelli, Université Paris Nanterre (12 hours)

More precise instructions on the set readings will be given during the course

Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation, New York-London, Routledge, 2006 (Teoria degli adattamenti, Roma, Armando, 2011)

Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture. Where Old and New Media collide, New Your University Press, NY 2006 (Cultura convergente, Milano, Apogeo, 2007).

Part II – PINOCCHIO ACROSS MEDIA

Sara Colaone, Accademia delle Belle Arti (18 hours)

More precise instructions on the set readings will be given during the course

Winshluss, Pinocchio, Comicon edizioni, Napoli, 2015

Alberico Motta, Sandro Bianconi, Pinocchio, Bianconi, 1974; new ed. Cliqot, 2016

Marco Corona, Le avventure di Pinocchio, Rizzoli Lizard, Milano, 2017

Benito Jacovitti, Pinocchio, Stampa Alternativa, 2011

Pinocchio, film, Walt Disney, 1940

Pinocchio, serie TV, Luigi Comencini, RAI 1972

Un burattino di nome Pinocchio [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_burattino_di_nome_Pinocchio], film, Giuliano Cenci [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliano_Cenci], 1971 [https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971]

Enzo D’Alò, Lorenzo Mattotti, Pinocchio, Rizzoli libri, Milano 2012

Le avventure di Pinocchio, romanzo App, Elastico produzioni, 2011

Teaching methods

· Lectures, seminars.

· Two special events in which students will have the opportunity to visit some of Bologna’s most important creative institutions such as the Accademia delle Belli Arti and the Cineteca Comunale di Bologna.

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Teaching tools

Audio and Video materials will be used to support lectures and seminars

Office hours

See the website of Angelo Maria Mangini