- Docente: Giuliana Benvenuti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/11
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production (cod. 0966)
Learning outcomes
Course contents
The course investigates the relationship among literature, cinema,
television and new media as transnational narratives. More
specifically, we will explore material which would have been
analysed under the shed of theory of adaptation (e.g. from novels
to movies) as well as intermedia storytelling. The course present
two case studies of noir: Romanzo criminale e Gomorra.
A transmedia story represents the integration of entertainment
experiences across a range of different media platforms. A story
might spread from literature into cinema, television, the web, and
so forth, picking up new consumers as it goes and allowing the most
dedicated fans to drill deeper. The fans, in turn, may translate
their interests in the franchise into concordances and wikipedia
entries, fan fiction, fan films, cosplay, game mods, and a range of
other participatory practices that further extend the story world
in new directions. Both the commercial and grassroots expansion of
narrative universes contribute to a new mode of storytelling, one
which is based on an encyclopedic expanse of information which gets
put together differently by each individual consumer as well as
processed collectively by social networks and online knowledge
communities.
Readings/Bibliography
Giancarlo De Cataldo, Romanzo criminale, Einaudi, 2009
Romanzo criminale, Michele Placido, 2005,
Romanzo criminale - La serie
R. Saviano, Gomorra. Viaggio nell'impero economico e nel sogno di dominio della camorra, Mondadori, 2014
Gomorra, Matteo Garrone, 2008
Gomorra - La serie
L. Hutcheon, Teoria degli adattamenti. I percorsi delle storie fra letteratura, cinema e nuovi media, Armando 2011
Teaching methods
The lessons are, most of all, lectures held by the teacher. During the lessons, students will be encouraged to participate. Finally, students will be invited for some specific issues and for the presentation of some texts and authors.
Assessment methods
The oral test consists in an oral interview which has the aim of
evaluating the critical and methodological ability of the students.
The students will be invited to discuss the tests on the course
programme. The student must demonstrate an appropriate knowledge of
the bibliography in the course programme.
Those students who are able to demonstrate a wide and systematic understanding of the issues covered during the lessons, are able to use these critically and who master the field-specific language of the discipline will be given a mark of excellence.
Those students who demonstrate a mnemonic knowledge of the subject with a more superficial analytical ability and ability to synthesize, a correct command of the language but not always appropriate, will be given a ‘fair' mark.
A superficial knowledge and understanding of the material, a scarce analytical and expressive ability that is not always appropriate will be rewarded with a pass mark or just above a pass mark.
Students who demonstrate gaps in their knowledge of the subject matter, inappropriate language use, lack of familiarity with the literature in the programme bibliography will not be given a pass mark.
Teaching tools
E' parte integrante del programma la visione integrale dei seguenti materiali audiovisivi:
Il Padrino, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972
Il Padrino - Parte II, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974
Il Padrino - Parte III, Francis Ford Coppola, 1990
Scarface, Brian De Palma, 1983
Ellroy, L.A. Confidential, Mondadori, 1990
L.A. Confidential, Curtis Hanson, 1997
In addition to lectures, held by the teacher, scholars will be invited to bring a significant contribution to increasing the issues upon which focuses the course.
Office hours
See the website of Giuliana Benvenuti