27824 - History and Media (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in History and Oriental Studies (cod. 8845)

Learning outcomes

The course is focused on the narration of Contemporary History by different forms of Media. The course will be tought in Italian, read carefully the Italian version for this reason. Some readings and media, principally films can be suggested or shown in English or other languages, like French, Spanish and German.   

Course contents

The course will examine a "global" history of WW2  made by different media in post war societies. Second topic introduced this year is Fascism. Fascism and the various ways in which it has been narrated in postwar Italian society and memory. Specific attention will be paid to different representations of this political experience and phenomenon in cinema, literature, popular culture, and to other forms of interpreting and remembering the recent fascist past in postwar Italy, by social groups, intellectuals and ordinary people. Particular emphasis will be given to the individual and collective memory of different genders and generations of Italians since 1945, as expressed in oral history, journals and unpublished testimonies. The course will include a survey of sites of Fascist and Second World War memory, their identifications, and also the controversies around some of them, such as Mussolini’s birthplace and grave. We will also analyze certain forms, traceable in national public history, of misremembering, forgetting and justification of responsibility for the fascist past, particularly in relation to colonialism, racism and antisemitism, and discrimination against people by religion, language or sexual orientation and behavior. Comparison will also be made with the public memory of Nazism and other fascisms in postwar Europe, mainly in the two Germanies, France and Spain.

Readings/Bibliography

See the Italian version

Teaching methods

Lessons, seminars, groups of study, vision of movies in class

Assessment methods

See the Italian version

Teaching tools

Video and vision of different media

Office hours

See the website of Patrizia Dogliani

SDGs

Quality education Gender equality Reduced inequalities Peace, justice and strong institutions

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.