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13003 LINGUA E TRADUZIONE INGLESE I in Languages and Cultures for International Communication LM-37 SERRA Alessandra Olga Grazia
(syllabus)
Adaptation and transcodification of the past into present fiction The course is focused on the language and discourse of audio-visual contemporary narratives. The following issues will be specifically examined: a) evolution of Cinema and TV series language (comparative analysis of screening/broadcasting modalities within TV series and Cinema communication model, characters of contemporary forms, development peculiarities); b) adaptation as intersemiotic translation and as a privileged expressive modality of contemporary TV and cinema narratives.
(reference books)
MANDATORY TEXTS: - Alessandra Serra, Re Media: Adattamento e transcodificazione dell’epoca vittoriana nella testualità contemporanea, INTRODUCTION (available on MOODLE) - Linda Hutcheon, Siobhan O’ Flynn, A Theory of Adaptation (2nd edition), London and New York, Routledge, 2013 (Available in print or Ebook) - Jason Mittell, Complex Tv. The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling, New York, New York University Press, 2015 - (Introduction and Chapter n.1 - Available on MOODLE) 1st yr: - Alessandra Serra, “ ‘Do they have mouths...?’ Tradurre dal linguaggio extraterrestre a quello umano: l’adattamento cinematografico di Story of Your Life di Ted Chiang”, in Traduttologia, VII/1-VII/2, 15-16 (Luglio 2016-Gennaio 2017), pp. 35-56. (available on MOODLE) - Alessandra Serra “Drama Queen: processi di transcodificazione e (ri)modellizzazione identitario-discorsiva nel linguaggio della serie televisiva Victoria”, RSV – Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, 48 (luglio 2019), pp. 59-85 (available on MOODLE) 2nd yr: - Alessandra Serra, “Neo-Victorian Contaminations: The Hybrid and Virulent Nature of Female Gothic in Penny Dreadful Women Characters,” Testo e Senso, 25, 2022, p.149-158. (available on MOODLE)
- Alessandra Serra, “Viral Monsters: Frankenstein’s Creatures in TV Series and Neo-Victorian ‘Contagious’ Re-Writing of the Canon,” Neo-Victorian Studies, Special Issue on Neo-Victorian Contagion: Re-Imagining Past Epidemics, Infection Control, and Public Health Crises, 14,1, 2021-2022. (available on MOODLE)
- Alessandra Serra, “The Bear: New (Stereotypical) Representations of Italian Americans in Contemporary Television Series,” Forum Italicum 58/1, Spring 2024 (‘Cultural Transitions: America, Italy, and the Nature of a Linguistic and Literary Dialogue’ - Selected excerpts made available for download on the course website. For further information, please refer to the course's website (will be indicated later)
NON-MANDATORY TEXTS - Monika Bednarek, Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018 (Available in print or Ebook)
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