The course of Postcolonial Film and Media Studies is part of the formative activities at free disposal of the students of the Degree Course in DAMS (Arts, Music and Drama). This Degree Course aims at offering an adequate foundation training, an extensive knowledge and appropriate methodological and critical instruments in performing arts and film, television and digital media, offering as well an adequate know how for the organization of cultural, performing arts, film and audiovisual events. The course of Postcolonial Film and Media Studies is intended to provide 1) a foundation training of key concepts and main lines of research that characterised postcolonial studies, with a specific reference to the experiences that involved the domain of film and media studies and the historical-cultural and artistic scenes in Italy; 2) the ability to contextualise, compare and critically analyse films, according to a postcolonial perspective, film texts and media narratives on the basis of a plurality of references (theoretical articles, critical contributions, interviews) and in the light of the direct vision of works; 3) the historic, critical and methodological key concepts necessary to the study of postcolonial critical thinking and to the analysis of an audiovisual narrative in a postcolonial lens.
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When thinking to the Naples as seen by Italian film and TV-series we immediately think to a Neapolitanness recognizable, a fabric interwoven by some imaginary places and some reference faces and authors, from Totò to Eduardo, via Massimo Troisi. Yet there is also a denied, a hidden, a subaltern Naples, a city that shows the living traces of a past made of encounter, domination, contamination, that bring us back to the relationships with the Mediterranean countries, with Africa, but also with African American experience, from guerre de course to colonialism, from migrations to multicultural society. We will analyze some titles that contributed to give shape and visibility to this plural Naples, ideally extending to its hinterland, from the Neapolitan episode of "Paisà" to "The Vice of Hope" (Edoardo De Angelis, 2018), via "Il nero" (Giovanni Vento, 1967), uncovering in an antiessentialist lens the condition of “black children of the Madonna”.
Roberto Rossellini, Paisà, ep. Napoli, 1946
Luigi Zampa, Campane a martello, 1949
Francesco De Robertis, Il mulatto, 1950
Giovanni Vento, Il nero, 1966
Guido Lombardi, Là-bas. Educazione criminale, 2011
Edoardo De Angelis, Il vizio della speranza, 2019
Programme
COUNTER-HISTORIES OF A PLURAL ITALY. NAPLES AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, FROM “CHILDREN OF THE MADONNA” TO THE STRUGGLES OF “SECOND GENERATIONS”When thinking to the Naples as seen by Italian film and TV-series we immediately think to a Neapolitanness recognizable, a fabric interwoven by some imaginary places and some reference faces and authors, from Totò to Eduardo, via Massimo Troisi. Yet there is also a denied, a hidden, a subaltern Naples, a city that shows the living traces of a past made of encounter, domination, contamination, that bring us back to the relationships with the Mediterranean countries, with Africa, but also with African American experience, from guerre de course to colonialism, from migrations to multicultural society. We will analyze some titles that contributed to give shape and visibility to this plural Naples, ideally extending to its hinterland, from the Neapolitan episode of "Paisà" to "The Vice of Hope" (Edoardo De Angelis, 2018), via "Il nero" (Giovanni Vento, 1967), uncovering in an antiessentialist lens the condition of “black children of the Madonna”.
Core Documentation
Filmography (list subject to revision):Roberto Rossellini, Paisà, ep. Napoli, 1946
Luigi Zampa, Campane a martello, 1949
Francesco De Robertis, Il mulatto, 1950
Giovanni Vento, Il nero, 1966
Guido Lombardi, Là-bas. Educazione criminale, 2011
Edoardo De Angelis, Il vizio della speranza, 2019
Reference Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAPHY Leonardo De Franceschi, Il nero di Giovanni Vento. Un film e un regista verso l’Italia plurale, Artdigiland, 2021. A reader of theoretical and historical essays, under the direction of the teacher.Type of delivery of the course
The course of Postcolonial Film and Media Studies is intended to be made through lessons in presence and include the viewing of a series of films, to take place mostly during the lessons, on a big screen. Attending and non-attending students will have the opportunity to access a shared folder including the anthology of articles to be considered part of the exam program and some didactical tools for the study.Type of evaluation
Oral exam, in person.