You are here:

81582 - History of Serialisation (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2024/2025

                
                        Docente:
                        Monica Dall'Asta
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        L-ART/06
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production (cod. 5899)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale
                        
                                    Course Timetable
                                
from Nov 11, 2024 to Dec 17, 2024

Learning outcomes

The course aims at retracing the main stages of the history of audiovisual seriality to offer an in-depth view of a complex phenomenon with important consequences on contemporary life. At the end of the course, students: - acquire knowledge about seriality, intended as a mode of cultural production characteristic of the modern age; - know and know how to use the specific vocabulary of seriality studies; - know the main stages and forms of seriality and know how to apply them to different genres and products; - have a reference framework that allows a more conscious evaluation of any innovative aspects of contemporary productions.

Course contents

Seriality and mediality in the history of Italian "giallo"

Seriality and genre: a theoretical introduction
Theorizing crime fiction
The crime genre as a serial genre
Italian "giallo" and the poetics of Mediterranean noi
Glocalism, transculturality and transmediality in contemporary Italian "giallo"

Readings/Bibliography

The list of the readings to prepare for the exam will be published on the dedicated page on virtuale.unibo.it

Bibliografia di riferimento:

AA.VV , Giallo italiano, Bianco e Nero n. 587, 2017
Rick Altman, Film/Genere, Milano, Vita & Pensiero, 2004
Andrea Bernardelli, "Eco e le forme della narrazione seriale", Between, vol. 6, n. 11, 2016, pp. 1-10.
Raymond Borde, Etienne Chaumeton, Panorama du film noir, Paris, 1954
Luca Crovi, Storia del giallo italiano, Venezia, Marsilio 2020
Monica Dall'Asta, Trame spezzate. Archeologia del film seriale, Genova, Le Mani, 2009
Leonardo Gandini, Il film noir americano, Torino, Lindau, 2008
Kim Toft Hansen, Steven Peacock, Sue Turnbull (eds.), European Television Crime Drama and Beyond, Palgrave McMillan, 2018
Jason Mittel, Complex TV. Teoria e tecnica dello storytelling delle serie tv, Roma, Minimum Fax, 2017
James Naremore, Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019
Federico Pagello, "Dal giallo al crime. Glocalismo, transculturalità e transmedialità nel poliziesco italiano contemporaneo", Mediazioni,2021, pp.30-43.
Barbara Pezzotti, Investigating Italy's Past Through Historical Crime Fiction, Films, and TV Series: Murder in the Age of Chaos, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
Tzvetan Todorov, "Tipologia del romanzo poliziesco" [1966], in Teoria della prosa, Roma-Napoli, Theoria, 1989
Renato Venturelli, L'età del noir. Ombre, incubi e delitti nel cinema americano, 1940-1960, Torino, Einaudi, 2007.
Renato Venturelli, Cinema noir americano 1960-2020, Torino, Einaudi, 2020

Teaching methods

Lezioni frontali; presentazioni multimediali con il supporto di slide, audiovisivi e altri strumenti digitali

Assessment methods

The exam will take place in the form of an interview in Italian. Students will be asked to answer a few questions about the program, so as to verify whether they have achieved the foreseen learning outcomes.

Office hours

See the website of Monica Dall'Asta