Course contents
The course will investigate the history of the Italian broadcasting system, the specific language of the different television genres, the palinsestual strategy also in relation to the digital and satellite system . In addition, the national television system will be compared with the main models in Europe and the U.S. market.
A corpus of lectures will be devoted to the spectacle of the body in contemporary television. We analyze the format of the TV makeover (Extreme Makeover), the medical drama (Nip / Tuk, Grey's Anatomy, The Knick, Appunti di un giovane medico ...) and crime series (CSI, Bones, Body of Proofs, Hannibal. ..)
Reccomended or required readings
Attending students:
- A: GRASSO, M. SCAGLIONI, Che cos’è la televisione, Garzanti, 2004 (pp. 67-390).
- Lectures Communication Theories
- Lectures MAKEOVER/MEDICAL DRAMA
J. Jacobs, Body trauma TV. The New Hospital Dramas, BFI 2003, pp. 1-16
M. Byers,V.M. Johnson (eds), The CSI Effect. Television, Crime, and Governance, Lexington 2009, pp. (to be defined)
Other essays available at the end of the course.
Lectures will be available at the beginning of the course at the Library Petrarca (1st floor, Palazzo San Tommaso) and at the Borromeo College.
ERASMUS
- A: GRASSO, M. SCAGLIONI, Che cos’è la televisione, Garzanti, 2004 (pp. 67-390).
Not attending students
- Lectures Communication Theories
- A: GRASSO, M. SCAGLIONI, Che cos’è la televisione, Garzanti, 2004 (pp. 67-390).
- V. Innocenti, M. Perrotta (a cura di), Factual, reality, makeover. Lo spettacolo della trasformazione nella televisione contemporanea, Bulzoni, 2013.