ITALIAN 333
Italian Popular Culture
Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 for ITALIAN 333.
Description
The Italian works of popular culture studied in this course belong to different media and genres and they have all been produced after the 1870s - that is a time in which technological, economic and social situations allowed the production of mass culture.
The course begins with an introduction to the critical debate on the definition and function of popular and high culture. A reading of the pedagogical novel Pinocchio and the viewing of recent adaptations for cinema and television will follow this.
In addition detective stories, comic books, fotoromanzi, television series will be analysed in an attempt to answer the questions: Do such popular culture artefacts reconcile their consumers to the status quo by entertaining them? Or do they perform a liberating function?
Availability 2019
Not taught in 2019
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Franco Manai
Reading/Texts
Readings will be available through CANVAS/Talis.
Assessment
Coursework only
Points
ITALIAN 333: 15 points
Prerequisites
ITALIAN 201 and 15 points from ITALIAN 202, 204, 206, 209, 211, 235, 236
Corequisites
ITALIAN 300
Restrictions
ITALIAN 713