2017/2018

2017/2018

DM270

M-STO/04 (CONTEMPORARY HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HISTORY OF EUROPE

Moderno e contemporaneo

1°

(25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

LOMBARDI PIETRO ANGELO - 6 ECTS

The student must have taken at least an exam in contemporary history during the first level degree and must be familiar with the basics of the discipline

Acquisition of the basic elements of a correct methodology for contemporary history. The aim is to encourage a critical approach to the subject, through the analysis and the choice of the most appropriate sources, for specific research projects, with particular care for the definition and evolution of rules governing “new sources”, shifting from commercial good and cultural product to historical source.

Title: " Movies and the Shoah. A methodological approach to the movie as historical source".
The course will be divided into two parts.
In the first one, after a mention about the main points related to questions and territories of contemporary history, there will be an investigation on methods of historical research and on context of sources, from the most conventional ones to the “documentary revolution” of last decades.

During the second part of the course, we will focus on the features and peculiarities of movie as historical source, analysing how the cinematographic interpretation of the Shoah and the deportations in the nazi lagers interlaced, in the second postwar years, with the evolution of the historiographic debate and of the historical research on such tematic. The relation between cinematography and Shoah is one of the topics that has been widely investigated by critics and cinematographic theory, but it is also one of the best points of view to pbserve the complexity of the connection between cinematography and history, between movies and historical source.

Frontal lectures, debates, seminars.
Methodological tests, with specific examples, on the use fo the movie as historical source. The influence of the movie on history; the movie as an instrument of narration; the movie as historical source.

Specific bibliography will be suggested during the lectures.
For a preliminary approach look up to:

Angelo D'Orsi, Piccolo manuale di storiografia, Bruno Mondadori, 2002; Giovanni De Luna, La passione e la ragione. Il mestiere dello storico contemporaneo, Milano, Bruno Mondadori 2004; Prima lezione di metodo storico, a cura di Sergio Luzzatto, Roma-Bari, Laterza 2015.

Peppino Ortoleva, Cinema e storia. Scene dal passato, Torino, Loescher, 1991 o Pierre Sorlin, La storia nei film. Interpretazioni del passato, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1984; Gori, Gianfranco (Miro),a cura di, La storia al cinema. Ricostruzione del passato/interpretazione del presente, Roma, Bulzoni, 1994

Giovanni Gozzini, la strada per Auschwitz. Documenti e interpretazioni dello sterminio nazista, bruno Mondadori 2006, pp.229; David Engel, L'Olocausto, Il Mulino, Universale paperbacks, 2013, pp.201; Valentina Pisanty, Abusi di memoria. Negare, banalizzare, sacralizzare la Shoah, Bruno Mondadori, 2012, pp.151; Dizionario dell'Olocausto, a cura di Walter Laqueur, Einaudi 2004 (in particular tha pages: Campi di sterminio, Collaborazionismo, Memorialistica, Negazionismo, Storiografia, Saggio bibliografico)

Claudio Gaetani, Il cinema e la Shoah, Le mani editore, 2006; Dizionario dell'Olocausto, cit. (the page: Cinema e televisione)

Written exercises and oral discussion during seminars, propaedeutic to the grading and to the final evaluation.
For students who do not attend lectures: written tests and oral discussion based both on books of choice and on material agreed with the teacher.