Teacher
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VAGNI TITO
(syllabus)
The course focuses on television as a form of expression and as a medium in which current perception and experience are formed. The objective being pursued is the construction of a survey of the state of Italian television, with particular reference to the following key terms: illusion, appearance, imaginary, transparency, success, cynicism, celebrity, influence. A network of lemmas aimed at joining some moments that constitute the pre- and post-history of the reality show, understood, on the one hand, as the moment in which the assumptions and hopes of television communication culminate, and, on the other, as the portal of access to digital platforms. Finally, a monographic in-depth study will be devoted to the figure of the villain in contemporary television aesthetics, analyzing its narrative treatises and its close relationship with contemporary culture.
(reference books)
The bibliography for the exam includes the study of two books:
. Vagni Tito, Abitare la TV. Teorie, immaginari, reality show, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2017. [required]
The second book must be chosen from the following list:
. Abruzzese Alberto, Delle cose che non si sanno si deve dire, Edizioni Estemporanee, Roma, 2023. . Bernardelli Andrea, Cattivi seriali. Personaggi atipici nelle produzioni televisive contemporanee, Carocci, Roma, 2017. . Dayan Daniel, Katz Elihu, Le grandi cerimonie dei media. La storia in diretta, Baskerville, Bologna, 1993 . Martin Brett, Difficult Man. Dai Soprano a Breaking Bad, gli antieroi delle serie TV, Minimum Fax, Roma, 2018.
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