Università Roma Tre

The course of Postcolonial Film and Media Studies is part of the formative activities at free disposal of the students of the Degree Course in DAMS (Arts, Music and Drama). This Degree Course aims at offering an adequate foundation training, an extensive knowledge and appropriate methodological and critical instruments in performing arts and film, television and digital media, offering as well an adequate know how for the organization of cultural, performing arts, film and audiovisual events. The course of Postcolonial Film and Media Studies is intended to provide 1) a foundation training of key concepts and main lines of research that characterised postcolonial studies, with a specific reference to the experiences that involved the domain of film and media studies and the historical-cultural and artistic scenes in Italy; 2) the ability to contextualise, compare and critically analyse films, according to a postcolonial perspective, film texts and media narratives on the basis of a plurality of references (theoretical articles, critical contributions, interviews) and in the light of the direct vision of works; 3) the historic, critical and methodological key concepts necessary to the study of postcolonial critical thinking and to the analysis of an audiovisual narrative in a postcolonial lens.