- Docente: Paolo Noto
- 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)
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from Sep 18, 2023 to Oct 23, 2023
Learning outcomes
The course is dedicated to the study of critical and analytical discursive productions and advanced research methods concerning the audiovisual media. At the end of the course, students: - know and distinguish the main methods of investigation on the history of cinema and media; - know how to access and use sources and repertories of information for research; - are aware of the different and correlated social, cultural, aesthetic, and economic dimensions of media production; - know how to independently set up original research starting from historical and archival sources.
Course contents
The workshop is dedicated to the theme of censorship from a historical perspective and with particular reference to the Italian case. Legislative measures, production and cultural practices and relevant cases of film and television censorship will be analysed. The study will be conducted through digital and traditional sources, documents and repertories, with the aim of understanding the multiple functions, both enabling and repressive, of film and television censorship.
Students will be required to elaborate and present, individually or collectively, a research paper focused on the course's themes.
Readings/Bibliography
Compulsory text:
Fabio Andreazza (a cura di), Fare storia del cinema. Metodi, oggetti, temi, Carocci, Roma, 2022.
One book to be chosen from:
Alfonso Venturini, La politica cinematografica del regime fascista, Carocci, Rome, 2015.
Tomaso Subini, La via italiana alla pornografia. Cattolicesimo, sessualità e cinema (1948-1986), Le Monnier, Milano, 2021.
Strongly recommended reading for the students with a limited preparation, or no preparation at all, in film history is also Paolo Caneppele and Denis Lotti, La documentazione cinematografica, Paolo Emilio Persiani, Bologna 2014.
Other research materials will be made available to attending and non-attending students via the Virtuale platform.
Teaching methods
Lectures, with viewing of the materials and documents examined. Students will be encouraged to discuss the course topics collectively.
Students who have attended at least 80% of the lectures (8 out of 10 lectures) will be considered as attending students for the purposes of participation in the examination.
Assessment methods
The examination will be conducted in written and oral form. Students, without distinction between attending and non-attending students, will discuss a written paper (maximum length: 5000 words/35000 characters, excluding bibliography) on a topic related to the course and agreed with the instructor. The discussion of the paper will be followed by an interview in order to verify in depth the knowledge of the examination texts.
The rules for writing papers are the same as those recommended by the School for Master's theses (see https://corsi.unibo.it/magistrale/Cinema/la-tesi-di-laurea/criteri-redazionali-tesi-di-laurea-magistrale.pdf/@@download/file/Criteri%20redazionali%20tesi%20di%20laurea%20magistrale.pdf ). Collective papers may be submitted, provided that the contribution of each author is clearly established.
The achievement of an organic vision of the themes addressed, the possession of a mastery of expression and a specific language, the originality of the reflection as well as the familiarity with the tools of film and media research will be assessed with marks of excellence.
An average knowledge of the subject, an inadequate ability to synthesise and analyse, or correct but not always appropriate language, as well as a pedantic mastery of the discipline lead to correct assessments.
Insufficient training or inappropriate language, as well as a lack of knowledge of the research tools, result in grades that are close to sufficient. Educational gaps, inappropriate language, lack of orientation within the bibliography as well as inability to research are evaluated negatively.
Teaching tools
Online databases, filmographies, catalogues and repertories.
Other research materials and recommended readings will be made available via the Virtuale platform.
Office hours
See the website of Paolo Noto