MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: STEFANIA RIMINI

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course intends to guide students in learning the fundamentals of cinematographic language in relation to other artistic languages (literature, music, video games) and to various devices, and to present the main theories relating to the processes of intermediality and transmediality.

1) Knowledge and understanding

Know the main topics of the course and understand the theoretical concepts

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

Ability to recognize the grammar and syntax of an audiovisual text

3) Autonomy of judgment

Ability to connect between expressive phenomena and contexts of reference

4) Communication skills

Development of the specialized lexicon referring to the proposed field of study

5) Learning skill

Autonomy in the recognition of bibliographic sources and in the integration of contents

Course Structure

Lectures with audiovisual support

Required Prerequisites

No prerequisites required

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

The Keywords of the course will be: the analysis of the principal multimedial narrative forms, the process of remediation between cinema and litarture, the practices of intersemiotic translation. A specific in-depth analysis will be dedicated to the format of videoclip, considered as a synthesis between images and music. A specific in-depth analysis will be dedicated to the film Barbie (directed by G. Gerwig, Usa 2023) and to the connection with the myths of contemporary society.

Textbook Information

A. To Comunicate through media (5 ECTS)

Text:

- G. Carluccio, A. Masecchia, S. Rimini (a cura di), Cinema, letteratura, intermedialitò, Roma, Carocci, 2023, pp. 276.

 

Video analysis:

- Oliver Twist (di R. Polanski, 2005)

- The Dark Knight (Il cavaliere oscuro, di C. Nolan, 2008)

- Little women (Piccole donne, di Greta Gerwig, 2019)

 

B. Video killed the radio star? (2 ECTS)

Text :

-M.T. Soldani (a cura di), Itinerari della canzone nei media, Neoclassica, 2023, pp. 206.

 

Video analysis:

- Adele, Hello, video di X. Dolan, 2015

- Sferaebbasta, Tran tran, video di A. Folino, 2017

- Colapesce e Dimartino, Musica leggerissima, video di Z. Nicolosi, 2021

- Colapesce e Dimartino, Splash, di Z. Nicolosi, G. Tomaselli, 2023

 

C. Think Pink! (2 ECTS)

Texts:

- H. Aguirre, Barbimania, «Vogue», 29 maggio 2023, https://www.vogue.it/article/barbie-film-margot-robbie-intervista

- A. Muktar, Intervista alla costumista di Barbie, «Vogue», 13 giugno 2023, https://www.vogue.it/article/barbie-film-intervista-costumista

- B. Hiatta, Il cervello dietro Barbie, «Rolling Stone Italia», 16 luglio 2023, https://www.rollingstone.it/cinema-tv/interviste-cinema-tv/il-cervello-dietro-barbie-dentro-la-mente-brillante-di-greta-gerwig/766097/

 

Video analysis:

-Aqua, Barbie girl, video di P. Stenbæk & P. Pedersen, 2012

- Barbie, di G. Gerwig, 2023

 

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.

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