27928 - Laboratory (1) (LM) (G.D)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the workshop the student acquires skills in the practical application of the skills developed during the courses, enabling him to interact effectively within professional activities in the design, production and dissemination of live entertainment activities.

Course contents

The laboratory aims to reconstruct the historical connection between theatrical production and political ideology through the analysis of a specific case: the over two hundred reviews of theatrical performances written by Antonio Gramsci in "Avanti!" between 1915 and 1920.

The aim of the workshop is therefore to focus on the link between theatrical production and its reception in a particular political context, characterized by radical social changes and epochal transformations of the imaginary, reconstructing the link between a work of art, theater criticism and political ideology as constitutive of the era of mass politics.

Readings/Bibliography

Suggsted readings

- Alberto Asor Rosa, Scrittori e popolo, Savelli, Roma, 1976, pp. VII-XV, 3-8, 153-280 (2015 edition: Prefazione, Introduzione and section "La resistenza e il gramscianesimo: apogeo e crisi del populismo").

- Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Gramsci e lo Stato, Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1976.

- Alberto Burgio, Gramsci storico. Una lettura dei Quaderni del carcere, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2003.

- Dizionario gramsciano 1926-1937, Carocci, Roma, 2009, selezione di voci (150 pp. selection, please email the teacher).

- Michele Filippini, Gramsci globale. Guida pratica alle interpretazioni di Gramsci nel mondo, Odoya, Bologna, 2011.

- Michele Filippini, Una politica di massa: Antonio Gramsci e la rivoluzione della società, Carocci, Roma, 2015.

- Michele Filippini, Using Gramsci: a new approach, London, Pluto Press, 2017.

- Gramsci le culture e il mondo, a cura di G. Schirru, Viella, Roma, 2009.

- Peter Ives, Language and Hegemony in Gramsci, Pluto Press, London, 2004.

- Guido Liguori, Gramsci conteso. Interpretazioni, dibattiti e polemiche. 1922-2012, Editori Riuniti University Press, Roma, 2012 (also 1996 edition).

- G. Liguori e F. Frosini, Le parole di Gramsci: per un lessico dei Quaderni del carcere, Carocci, Roma, 2004.

- Franco Lo Piparo, Lingua, intellettuali, egemonia in Gramsci, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1979.

- Leonardo Rapone, Cinque anni che paiono secoli: antonio Gramsci dal socialismo al comunismo (1914-1919), Carocci, Roma, 2011.

- Studi gramsciani nel mondo 2000-2005, a cura di G. Vacca e G. Schirru, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.

- Peter Thomas, The Gramscian Moment. Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism, Brill, Leiden, 2009.

Teaching methods

Seminar discussions. Teaching language: Italian.

Assessment methods

The laboratory requires attendance, the learning assessment will take place during the laboratory based on participation and discussion among the attending students.

Any student unable to attend may agree with the teacher, during office hours, on a reading list on the subject aimed at writing a paper.

Office hours

See the website of Michele Filippini