POST COLONIAL FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
(objectives)
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.
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Code
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20710412 |
Language
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ITA |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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6
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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L-ART/06
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Contact Hours
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36
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Type of Activity
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Elective activities
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Teacher
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DE FRANCESCHI LEONARDO
(syllabus)
COUNTER-HISTORIES OF A PLURAL ITALY. TRANSCULTURAL AND POST/COLONIAL ROME #1 – FROM SILENT CINEMA TO THE EIGHTIES In Rome, street names and monuments tell us about an eternal city where for a long time practices and dreams of imperial power were nurtured, in the classical era as in the Fascist period. Along with narratives and omissions, films and tv series may help us to retrace a long history of transcultural cohabitation, dealing with millenary trades in and beyond the Mediterranean Sea that preceded the process of nation building, the dark page of liberal and fascist colonialism and its traces left in the territory and in the imagination. All this, seen through the eyes of those who live, work and make movies in Rome; of those leaving Rome, keeping a cultural identity that can be recognized; of those who keep on coming to Rome, enriching it with their past and their future. Our journey starts from the silent cinema and halts just before 1989, where the perception of a turning point in Italian history, coming with the new mobilities from the South and the East, changed the political and symbolic agendas.
(reference books)
A reader of articles on postcolonial theory and film critics, selected by the professor.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Oral exam
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