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20710389 COMUNICAZIONE VISUALE in Film, Television and Multimedial Production LM-65 Solombrino Olga
(syllabus)
The course focuses on the study and analysis of images, with particular reference to the social components that intervene in the processes of signification. In the first part of the course students will be provided with analytical and methodological tools to analyze images and, in particular, photographs (mainly referring to the theories of Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag). In the second part, instead, specific attention will be given to their public and social use, with particular reference to the images of controversial past (wars, violence, terrorist attacks, migration, activism and revolutions).
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) visual activism; f) sexuality and gender in advertisements; g) photography and representation of the Other.
(reference books)
1) Roland Barthes (1979), La camera chiara. Nota sulla fotografia, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi, Torino.
2) Roland Barthes (1964), Image-Music-Text. (Translation 1977), capitolo II, “The Rhetoric of the Image”. S. Heath, ed. London: Fontana, pp. 32-51.
3) Susan Sontag (1973), On Photography, Capitolo I, "In Plato's Cave”, Rosetta Books, 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 (ed.), 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, Piscaway, pp. 41-64.
7) Susie Linfield (2013), La luce crudele. Fotografia e violenza politica, Contrasto Edizioni, Roma, pp. 10-46.
8) Merskin, Debra (2004), “Reviving Lolita? A Media Literacy Examination of Sexual Portrayals of Girls in Fashion Advertising”. American Behavioral Scientist 48, pp. 119-128
The articles and essays will be available for the students on the website http://filosofiacomunicazionespettacolo.uniroma3.it (personal webpage) and on the Moodle page of the course.
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