The course Literature, journalism and new media, L.M., aims to enrich the student's specialized training on contemporary Italian literature through the interrelationships with journalism, cinema and television that have profoundly changed the system of literary communication during the twentieth century. The educational perspective, open to the ongoing transformations of literary writing in relation to new communication strategies, aims to prepare the student for the potential of multiple career opportunities.
teacher profile teaching materials
The aim of the course is to explore, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the relationship between literature and tv from in the new Millennium. In this period there was the diffusion of new technologies that have revolutionized literary communication systems.
Two works by two of the following authors: Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umberto Eco, Dacia Maraini, Melania Mazzucco, Sandro Veronesi, Antonio Scurati, Francesco Piccolo, Nicola Lagioia, Oriana Fallaci, Roberto Saviano, Elena Ferrante, Niccolò Ammaniti.
Programme
From novel to screen. Literature and TV in the New MillenniumThe aim of the course is to explore, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the relationship between literature and tv from in the new Millennium. In this period there was the diffusion of new technologies that have revolutionized literary communication systems.
Core Documentation
Two works by two of the following authors: Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Umberto Eco, Dacia Maraini, Melania Mazzucco, Sandro Veronesi, Antonio Scurati, Francesco Piccolo, Nicola Lagioia, Oriana Fallaci, Roberto Saviano, Elena Ferrante, Niccolò Ammaniti.
Reference Bibliography
Bibliography: G. Benvenuti, R. Ceserani, La letteratura nell’età globale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012; P. Giovannetti, Il racconto. Letteratura, cinema, televisione, Carocci, 2012 E. Mondello, Il noir degli anni Zero. Uno sguardo sulla narrativa italiana del terzo millennio, Roma, Giulio Perrone, 2015 oppure In principio fu Tondelli. Letteratura, merci, televisione, Il Saggiatore, 2007 R. Donnarumma, Ipermodernità. Dove va la narrativa contemporanea, Il Mulino, 2014 D. Giglioli, Senza trauma. Scrittura dell'estremo e narrativa del nuovo millennio, Quodlibet, 2011 C. Melani-M. Venturini, Ecce Video. Tv e letteratura dagli anni Ottanta a oggi. Firenze, Cesati, 2018 E. Piga Bruni, Romanzo e serie tv. Critica sintomatica dei finali, Pacini, 2018 S. Rimini (a cura di), Una vernice di fiction. Gli scrittori e la televisione, Duetredue, 2017 H. Serkowska (a cura di), Finzione, cronaca, realtà. Scambi, intrecci e prospettive nella narrativa italiana contemporanea, Massa, Transeuropa, 2011Type of delivery of the course
The course will have a seminary structure and the lessons will be organized so as to facilitate the discussion. The course requires a written work. This draft will have to be sent fifteen days before the oral exam. Attending students will have to prepare two critical essays of their choice and two authors to be analyzed. The oral examination will be focused on the written work, on the works analysed during the course and on the critical essays. Students who do not attend will have to prepare three critical essay of their choice and two authors to be analyzed. Erasmus students will have to prepare one critical essay and two authors to be analyzed.Attendance
Attendance to the course is not obligatory, but is strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
Exam: oral. The oral examination will be focused on the written test, on the works analysed during the course and on the critical essays.