The teaching aims to provide students/boys with some of the most significant ways of representing contemporary reality in the disciplinary field of literature and visual culture. The teaching aims to provide students with a general understanding of some of the most complex and problematic, and at the same time most widespread, procedures through which multiple practices of communication in the hyper-iconic, digital and social age unfold.
teacher profile teaching materials
• E. Menduni, Videostoria. Italy and TV 1975-2015, Bompiani 2018
• A. Pinotti, A. Somanini Visual culture. Images, looks, media, devices, Bompiani 2016
• A. Bisogno, Intrusive TV. The reality of pain from Vermicino to Avetrana, Carocci 2015
A book chosen from:
• A. Need, History on TV. Image and collective memory, Carocci 2015
• G. Celata, A. Marinelli Connecting television. Television at the time of the internet, Guerini e Associati 2012
Programme
The course aims to deepen that area of interdisciplinary research developed in Anglo-Saxon cultural studies at the center of which is the study of visual culture (1972) which indicates an approach of images that is attentive not only to the history that precedes them and influences them, but also to the culture that surrounds and produces them.Core Documentation
• E. Menduni, Videostoria. Italy and TV 1975-2015, Bompiani 2018
• A. Pinotti, A. Somanini Visual culture. Images, looks, media, devices, Bompiani 2016
• A. Bisogno, Intrusive TV. The reality of pain from Vermicino to Avetrana, Carocci 2015
A book chosen from:
• A. Need, History on TV. Image and collective memory, Carocci 2015
• G. Celata, A. Marinelli Connecting television. Television at the time of the internet, Guerini e Associati 2012
Type of evaluation
Oral Exam