- Docente: Marco Santoro
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SPS/08
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Cinema, Television and Multimedia Production (cod. 0966)
Learning outcomes
The student will learn the fundamental tools of sociology and social research, and will be able to apply them to the study of film production, consumption, evaluation and classification.
Course contents
The class is articulated in two parts. In the first we will build a toolbox for doing sociology of cinema according to the most recent sociological perspectives and methods - which are very different from what has for long "passed" as sociology of cinema in Italy, i.e. a social criticism of individual films and directors. In this part we will discuss the works of scholars like Howard Becker, Pierre Bourdieu, Paul DiMaggio and their followers, but will also focus on what is probably the first sociological empirical research on the cinema, i.e. Emilie Altenloh's Zur Soziologie des Kino (1914). In the second part of the course we will put in practice our tools in order to sociologically "deconstruct" a popular genre as "Wester all'italiana" or Spaghetti Western looking for logics of production, consumtion patterns, strategies of evaluation and consecration. A research in progress will be presented and discussed in class.
Readings/Bibliography
A list of texts in English will be available on request.
Teaching methods
Teaching methods are mixed: both lessons and seminars, as well as practical applications
Assessment methods
Oral exam, with the possibility to discuss a research paper on a subject/topic previously planned
Office hours
See the website of Marco Santoro