THEORIES AND SOCIOLOGY OF COMICS FROM PRINT TO DIGITAL

LORENZO DI PAOLA THEORIES AND SOCIOLOGY OF COMICS FROM PRINT TO DIGITAL

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DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
EQF7
THEATRE AND MEDIA STUDIES
2021/2022

YEAR OF COURSE 2
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2020
AUTUMN SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
630LESSONS
Objectives
THE COURSE IS DEDICATED TO THE ANALYSIS AND VERIFICATION OF THE HISTORY AND THEORIES OF COMICS FROM ITS BEGINNINGS ON PRINTED PAPER TO THE CURRENT DIGITAL AGE. PATHS CAPABLE OF HISTORICALLY INVESTIGATING THE SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGES OF THE MEDIUM (FROM THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO TODAY) WILL BE OUTLINED. THE COURSE AIMS TO INVESTIGATE THE SUCCESSION OF THEORIES ABOUT THE POSITION THAT COMICS OCCUPY, FROM ERA TO ERA, IN THE GENERAL SCENARIO OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION. THE UNPRECEDENTED PERSPECTIVES THAT THE DIGITAL ERA PROPOSES FOR THE SAME RESEARCH, BOTH HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL, ON THE HISTORICAL AND CURRENT FORMS OF THE MEDIUM WILL BE ANALYZED, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE INTEGRATIONS AND INTERACTIONS (FROM THE "INTERMEDIALITY" TO THE "TRANSMEDIALITY") PRODUCED BETWEEN COMICS AND OTHER MEDIA..
Prerequisites
INTEREST IN NEW PRACTICES AND DYNAMICS IN THE WORLD OF COMICS. BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE HISTORY OF COMICS AND ITS AUTHORS.
Contents
THE FOLLOWING TOPICS WILL BE COVERED DURING THE COURSE:
1) HISTORY OF COMICS THEORIES;
2) GENRES, FORMS AND STORYTELLING TECHNIQUES OF COMICS SERIALITY FROM PAPER TO DIGITAL;
3) MEDIOLOGY OF COMICS;
4) ANALYSIS OF CASE HISTORIES
Teaching Methods
THE COURSE IS CONDUCTED THROUGH THE FOLLOWING METHODOLOGIES: LECTURES AND SEMINAR ACTIVITIES FOCUSING ON CASE STUDIES.
24 HOURS WILL BE DEDICATED TO LECTURES AND 6 HOURS TO SEMINAR ACTIVITIES WITH CASE HISTORY DISCUSSION.
ATTENDANCE OF LECTURES IS NOT MANDATORY, BUT STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.
Verification of learning
THE ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE WILL BE TESTED THROUGH AN ORAL EXAMINATION AT THE END OF THE COURSE, WHICH WILL FOCUS ON THE COURSE CONTENT AND THE CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CASE HISTORIES
Texts
1)LORENZO DI PAOLA, L’INAFFERRABILE MEDIUM. UNA CARTOGRAFIA DELLE TEORIE DEL FUMETTO DAGLI ANNI VENTI A OGGI, ALESSANDRO POLIDORO EDITORE, NAPOLI, 2019.
2)LORENZO DI PAOLA, “STRISCE DIGITALI. FORME NARRATIVE E TRASFORMAZIONI CULTURALI NEL FUMETTO CONTEMPORANEO” , FUNES. JOURNAL OF NARRATIVES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, VOL.3, 2019
3)MARIO TIRINO, “ARCHEOLOGIA DELLA TRANSMEDIALITÀ: TEORIE, APPROCCI E FORMATI. IL CASO FLASH GORDON” MEDIASCAPES JOURNAL 13/2019.
4)GIORGIO BUSI RIZZI, “FARE COSE CON I FUMETTI: I POST-COMICS DIGITALI E LA PROMESSA DELL’INTERATTIVITÀ”, PIXEL : LETTERATURA E MEDIA DIGITALI. IN LETTERE PERSIANE P.129-150
5)TIRINO, M., DI PAOLA, L., “LA DIVINA PARODIA. UN’ANALISI SOCIOCULTURALE DI DANTE. LA DIVINA COMMEDIA A FUMETTI DI MARCELLO TONINELLI” , DANTE E L’ARTE 5, 2018
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