The course aims to provide a basic preparation on the history of the media in the contemporary age and on the close relationships that have linked their development to the main processes of cultural, economic, institutional, political and social transformation from the Nineteenth Century to the present day.
teacher profile teaching materials
– ALBERTO PAPUZZI, PROFESSIONE GIORNALISTA. TECNICHE E REGOLE DI UN MESTIERE, ROMA, DONZELLI, 2010 (QUINTA EDIZIONE)
II PART
– LYN GORMAN E DAVID MCLEAN, MEDIA E SOCIETÀ NEL MONDO CONTEMPORANEO, BOLOGNA, IL MULINO, 2011
III PART
– MAURIZIO ZINNI, SCHERMI RADIOATTIVI. L’AMERICA, HOLLYWOOD E L’INCUBO NUCLEARE DA HIROSHIMA ALLA CRISI DI CUBA, MARSILIO, 2013
Programme
The first part of the course aims to analyse the fondamental elements of professional journalism; the second, is dedicated to study the evolution of mass media industry from its origins to XXI century and its relationship with the mai political social and economical processes of the time; tha last part is focused on cinema as cultural, economical and political production of the modernity, with a straight attention to the realtionship between American cinema, politics and society in the years of nuclear scare (1945-1965).Core Documentation
I PART– ALBERTO PAPUZZI, PROFESSIONE GIORNALISTA. TECNICHE E REGOLE DI UN MESTIERE, ROMA, DONZELLI, 2010 (QUINTA EDIZIONE)
II PART
– LYN GORMAN E DAVID MCLEAN, MEDIA E SOCIETÀ NEL MONDO CONTEMPORANEO, BOLOGNA, IL MULINO, 2011
III PART
– MAURIZIO ZINNI, SCHERMI RADIOATTIVI. L’AMERICA, HOLLYWOOD E L’INCUBO NUCLEARE DA HIROSHIMA ALLA CRISI DI CUBA, MARSILIO, 2013
Reference Bibliography
No additional readings provided.Type of delivery of the course
The course will be developed with frontal lessons and the use of audiovisual supports.Attendance
Class attendance is not mandatory but strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
The students have to pass an oral test regarding the three parts of the course.