81582 - History of Serialisation (1) (LM)

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 consists of an oral test. The test aims to assess the achievement of the following learning objectives:

• Ability to contextualize historically the main stages of the crime, detective, and noir genres
• Ability to use the theoretical tools acquired during the course to analyze serial products
•  Mastery of the specific vocabulary of seriality studies

A presentation that is not only formally correct but also critically aware will be rewarded with the highest marks. A purely factual presentation will result in a moderate evaluation. Incomplete knowledge expressed in uncertain or inappropriate language will result in a grade below passing. The detection of significant gaps in both theoretical-critical and historiographical knowledge will lead to a negative evaluation.

Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students ) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.

Office hours

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