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20710389 COMUNICAZIONE VISUALE in Film, Television and Multimedial Production LM-65 TOTA ANNA LISA
(syllabus)
The course deals with the study and analysis of images and it refers particularly to the social aspects that affect the meaning construction. The first part of the course will provide the analytical and methodological tools to analyze images and photos (Roland Barthes' and Susan Sontag's theories will be considered). The second part will focus on the public and social uses of photos, devoting a special attention to the images of controversial pasts (wars, natural disasters, violence, terrorist attacks). Moreover, the following topics will be illustrated: a) the relation between memory and photography; b) the digital photography; c) selfie and social identities; d) photography as art; e) photography and fashion. The third part will deal with the use of images in advertising.
(reference books)
1) Roland Barthes (1979), La camera chiara. Nota sulla fotografia, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino.
2) Roland Barthes (1964), The Rhetoric of the Image. Image-Music-Text. (Translation 1977). S. Heath, ed. London: Fontana, pp. 32-51.
3) Susan Sontag (1973), On Photography, Chapter 1 "In Plato's Cave, RosettaBooks, New York, pp. 1-19.
4) David Bate (2017), Il primo libro di fotografia, Capitolo 7 "Fotografia e Arte", Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino, pp. 193-211.
5) Barbie Zelizer (2004), The Voice of the Visual in Memory, in Phillips R. Kendall (Hg.), Framing Public Memory, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, pp. 157-186.
6) Anna Lisa Tota (2013), A Photo that Matter: The Memorial Clock in Bologna and its Invented Tradition, in Olga Shevchenko (ed.), Double Exposure: Memory and Photography, Transaction Publishers, pp. 41-64.
7) Susie Linfield (2013), La luce crudele. Fotografia e violenza politica, Contrasto Edizioni, pp. 10-46.
8) Merskin, Debra (2004). Reviving Lolita? A Media Literacy Examination of Sexual Portrayals of Girls in Fashion Advertising. “American Behavioral Scientist”, vol. 48, pp. 119-128.
The articles and essays will be available for the students on the website http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it (personal webpage).
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