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B020710 - HISTORY OF RADIO AND TELEVISION
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Course program
Academic Year 2018-19
Course year
Second year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-ART/06 - CINEMA, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
13/09/2018 ⇒ 16/12/2018
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Outlines of Radio and Television History in Italy: narratives, broadcastings, media interactions
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Bibliography:
1. F. Monteleone, Storia della radio e della televisione in Italia, Marsilio, Venezia (last edition) only these parts:
Chap. I: “La grande strada dell’etere” / Chap. III: “La parola elettrica” / Chap. IV: “La parola autoritaria” (only § 1, 2) / Chap. V: “La folla domestica” (only § 2, 4) / Chap. VI: “Voci in guerra” (only §1, 2 , 4, 5) /Chap. VII: “Dagli alleati alla democrazia” (only § 1, 2, 3) /Chap. VIII: “Radio italiana” (only § 4, 5) / Chap. IX: “Vedere a distanza” (only § 1, 2) / Chap. X: “Il magico occhio luminoso” (only § 3, 4, 5, 6) / Chap. XI: “Ribalta accesa” (only § 4, 6) / Chap. XII: “Anni di piombo” / Chap. XIII: “Nel mercato elettronico” (only § 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) /Chap. XIV: “Restate in ascolto” / Chap. XV: “Una difficile transizione” (only § 1, 2, 3, 15, 17, 18)
2. P. Valentini, Televisione e gioco. Quiz e società italiana, Archetipo, Bologna 2013
3. D. Cardini, La lunga serialità televisiva, Carocci, Roma 2004
4. Filmography: alla radio and TV broadcastings examinated during lessons and indicated in the program must be well known and could be a question during the exam Students should watch and listen again each radio e tv program using link in e-learnign Platform.
1. F. Monteleone, Storia della radio e della televisione in Italia, Marsilio, Venezia (last edition) only these parts:
Chap. I: “La grande strada dell’etere” / Chap. III: “La parola elettrica” / Chap. IV: “La parola autoritaria” (only § 1, 2) / Chap. V: “La folla domestica” (only § 2, 4) / Chap. VI: “Voci in guerra” (only §1, 2 , 4, 5) /Chap. VII: “Dagli alleati alla democrazia” (only § 1, 2, 3) /Chap. VIII: “Radio italiana” (only § 4, 5) / Chap. IX: “Vedere a distanza” (only § 1, 2) / Chap. X: “Il magico occhio luminoso” (only § 3, 4, 5, 6) / Chap. XI: “Ribalta accesa” (only § 4, 6) / Chap. XII: “Anni di piombo” / Chap. XIII: “Nel mercato elettronico” (only § 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) /Chap. XIV: “Restate in ascolto” / Chap. XV: “Una difficile transizione” (only § 1, 2, 3, 15, 17, 18)
2. P. Valentini, Televisione e gioco. Quiz e società italiana, Archetipo, Bologna 2013
3. D. Cardini, La lunga serialità televisiva, Carocci, Roma 2004
4. Filmography: alla radio and TV broadcastings examinated during lessons and indicated in the program must be well known and could be a question during the exam Students should watch and listen again each radio e tv program using link in e-learnign Platform.
Learning Objectives
The course provides a historical knowledge on the evolution of radio and television, and offers tools for analysis of radio and television broadcasts and for the understanding of audiovisual language and the cultural study of the relationship between media, and in particular between radio, television and film.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
Knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of radio and television history in Italy and of the relation with the surrounding national and international media culture.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
Acquiring the basic skills of analyzing radio and TV broadcast, its intermedial implications, and the basic programming strategies associated with it.
MAKING JUDGEMENTS:
Know how to analyze and evaluate research practices and basic analysis models on television and radio texts.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
Knowledge and use of the specific and appropriate terminology
LEARNING SKILLS:
Ability to build autonomous insights into specific themes addressed during the lessons
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
Knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of radio and television history in Italy and of the relation with the surrounding national and international media culture.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING:
Acquiring the basic skills of analyzing radio and TV broadcast, its intermedial implications, and the basic programming strategies associated with it.
MAKING JUDGEMENTS:
Know how to analyze and evaluate research practices and basic analysis models on television and radio texts.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
Knowledge and use of the specific and appropriate terminology
LEARNING SKILLS:
Ability to build autonomous insights into specific themes addressed during the lessons
Prerequisites
The course requires registration to the Moodle e-learning Platform (http://e-l.unifi.it/): the key entry will be announced at the beginning of the lessons and it will expires in 10 days; After that date student will have to contact the professor for the individual registration. The study materials published therein, and in particular the links to movies, are an integral part of the study program.
Students of the borrowed course B020710-Storia della radio e della televisione (36 hours / 6 cfu) will have to study only subject 1 to 11 included in the e-learning platform. It is not allowed to use both codes, B020710 e B027792, in the study plan and to make both the exams.
Students of the borrowed course B020710-Storia della radio e della televisione (36 hours / 6 cfu) will have to study only subject 1 to 11 included in the e-learning platform. It is not allowed to use both codes, B020710 e B027792, in the study plan and to make both the exams.
Teaching Methods
Lectures, screenings and listening to audio and video documents, depth study materials on Moodle e-learning Platform.
Type of Assessment
The course, as required by University of Florence; for access to examination students must have gained at least 75% of lessons (i.e. 54 hours for 12 cfu, 27 hours for 6 cfu). Student's signatures will be collected during lessons.
The final exam consists of a written test on 3-4 open questions; students will have 2 hours to complete the test. For sufficiency it is compulsory to answer all questions. Anyone wishing to take the exam in oral form should agree a written report with the teacher.
"Appelli straordinari" are reserved to specific kind of student designated by Scuola and they will be held in oral form.
Students not registrated on e-learning platform will not be admitted to the final exam.
Non-attending students will not be admitted to the final exam if they didn't agree a special program with the teacher during front desk hours.
The final exam consists of a written test on 3-4 open questions; students will have 2 hours to complete the test. For sufficiency it is compulsory to answer all questions. Anyone wishing to take the exam in oral form should agree a written report with the teacher.
"Appelli straordinari" are reserved to specific kind of student designated by Scuola and they will be held in oral form.
Students not registrated on e-learning platform will not be admitted to the final exam.
Non-attending students will not be admitted to the final exam if they didn't agree a special program with the teacher during front desk hours.
Course program
Prof. Paola Valentini
B020710 - Storia della radio e della televisione (72 hours/ 12 cfu)
Course Degree Dams – Year 2018-2019
Borrowed Course B027792 - Storia della radio e della televisione (36 hours / 6 cfu) for CdL B219
Program
Institutional part: Outlines of the history of radio and television in Italy
- The complex and plural identity of medias and the notion of the media system - the media landscape and the development of communication the late nineteenth century.
- From wireless telegraph to radio broadcasting - Guglielmo Marconi - The birth of Uri and radio as a music box.
- From URI to EIAR. Genres and languages in classical radio broadcastings: variety show (the case of Quattro moschettieri), radio dramas (L’anello di Teodosio).
- Radio and Fascism: information and comments (Il discorso della battaglia del grano, Cronache del regime) and propaganda (the radio for children: Il cantuccio dei bambini, Il giornalino del fanciullo). The radio during the war and the case of Radio Londra
- Radio and Liberation (Italia combatte, Le avventure di Cico e pallina, Vi parla Alberto Sordi).
- From radiovision to TV - 1954: The television boom (Sanremo) - The "pedagogical TV" (L’amico degli animali, Una risposta per voi, Telescuola, ....).
- The programs that have made the TV: the quiz show from Lascia o raddoppia to Rischiatutto. The variety show: the birth of the genre and of the language of television (Un, due, tre, Studio uno, Canzonissima). The romance TV novelization: Promessi sposi
- The radio after the birth of television (Il microfono è vostro, L’Approdo, Clausura) - 70s: monopoly and oligopoly by the phenomenon of free radio (Radio Sicilia Libera, Radio popolare, Radio Alice, etc.). The radio reorganization of Piccioni(Alto gradimento, Chiamate Roma 3131, Bandiera gialla).
- The great technological changes: color, cable, remote control, satellites - The case of Tele Biella - The Rai reforms: by Law 103 to Mammi Law - The emergence of private broadcasting (I sogni nel cassetto, Mondialito, Sentieri, Dallas).
- From "paleotelevisione" to neotelevision (Portobello, Domenica in, Pronto, Raffaella? Non è la Rai, Drive in). Quiz and game show: the great investment of commercial TV in the era of the Internet.
Monographic part: Characters and dissemination of seriality in the Italian television
- Aesthetics of repetition and series in modern industrial society. Social functions of fiction and genres of television series: series (sitcoms, anthology, spin off) and serials (soap opera, soap opera, mini-series, long series or continuous serials).
- Serialization and television as library and reprocessing of the iconographic heritage: from Pinocchio (G. Antamoro, 1911) to The Adventures of Pinocchio (L. Comencini, 1972) through Disney.
- The penetration of US TV series in the Italian television: from Rin Tin Tin (1954) to Happy Days (1974). The Italian TV show: Racconti dell’Italia di ieri (1961). Analysis of Il tenente Sheridan. Buio alle otto (1959) and of Le inchieste del commissario Maigret. Un Natale di Maigret (Mario Landi, 1965). The sitcom: Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca (Lina Wertmuller, 1964)
- The Italian serialization and novelization of Romance. Analysis of la cittadella (Anton Giulio Majano, 1964), Il segno del comando (Daniele D'Anza, 1971) and Geminus (Luciano Emmer, 1969)
- The second and third Golden Age of US television drama from Hill Street Blues (1981-1987), Miami Vice (1984-1989), É.R. (1994-2009), to Twin Peaks (1990-1991) and 24 (2001-2010)
- The new television epic: the continous series. The telenovela and creations of Gilberto Braga: La schiava Isaura (1976) and Dancing Days (1978). Analysis of Terra nostra (1999-2000) e Un posto al sole (1996).
- The serial nature of the endless soap opera: Irna Philips and Agnes Nixon. The spread in Italy: from Dallas (1978-1991) to Beautiful (1987-).
- Anomalies in the Italian TV market: the Nineties and the production of Italian fiction. The miniseries from La piovra (1984) to the case Montalbano. Analysis of Gli arancini di Montalbano (Alberto Sironi, 2002). The case of Distretto di polizia(2000).
Bibliography:
1. F. Monteleone, Storia della radio e della televisione in Italia, Marsilio, Venezia (last edition) only these parts:
Chap. I: “La grande strada dell’etere” / Chap. III: “La parola elettrica” / Chap. IV: “La parola autoritaria” (only § 1, 2) / Chap. V: “La folla domestica” (only § 2, 4) / Chap. VI: “Voci in guerra” (only §1, 2 , 4, 5) /Chap. VII: “Dagli alleati alla democrazia” (only § 1, 2, 3) /Chap. VIII: “Radio italiana” (only § 4, 5) / Chap. IX: “Vedere a distanza” (only § 1, 2) / Chap. X: “Il magico occhio luminoso” (only § 3, 4, 5, 6) / Chap. XI: “Ribalta accesa” (only § 4, 6) / Chap. XII: “Anni di piombo” / Chap. XIII: “Nel mercato elettronico” (only § 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) /Chap. XIV: “Restate in ascolto” / Chap. XV: “Una difficile transizione” (only § 1, 2, 3, 15, 17, 18)
2. P. Valentini, Televisione e gioco. Quiz e società italiana, Archetipo, Bologna 2013
3. D. Cardini, La lunga serialità televisiva, Carocci, Roma 2004
4. Filmography: radio and TV broadcastings examinated during lessons and indicated in the program must be well known and could be a question during the exam Students should watch and listen again each radio e tv program using link in e-learnign Platform.
Part-time students
Part time students, if they did not attend, they must substitute the hours of attendance by adding the text P. Valentini, Presenze sonore. Il passaggio al sonoro in Italia tra cinema e radio, Le Lettere, Firenze 2007 (everything except: Introduction - Chapter 2 - Chapter 6).
Prerequisites:
The course requires registration to the Moodle e-learning Platform (http://e-l.unifi.it/): the key entry will be announced at the beginning of the lessons and it will expires in 10 days; After that date student will have to contact the professor for the individual registration. The study materials published therein, and in particular the links to movies, are an integral part of the study program.
Students of the borrowed course B020710-Storia della radio e della televisione (36 hours / 6 cfu) will have to study only subject 1 to 11 included in the e-learning platform. It is not allowed to use both codes, B020710 e B027792, in the study plan and to make both the exams.
Examination Methods
The course, as required by University of Florence; for access to examination students must have gained at least 75% of lessons (i.e. 54 hours for 12 cfu, 27 hours for 6 cfu). Student's signatures will be collected during lessons. The exam consists of a written test on 3-4 open questions; "Appelli straordinari", reserved to specific kind of student designated by Scuola, will be held in oral form. For sufficiency it is compulsory to answer all questions. Anyone wishing to take the exam in oral form should agree a written report with the teacher.
Students not registrated on e-learning platform will not be admitted to the final exam.
Non-attending students will not be admitted to the final exam if they didn't agree a special program with the teacher during front desk hours.
Class schedule: Monday 13:00-15:00, Tuesday 13:00-17:00, Wednesday 13:00-15:00 (Class 8, Via Capponi 9, ground floor). Front desk: Wednesday 9.00-11.00 Dip.to disas (via Gino Capponi, 9 - Room 8, 1st floor).
Students are invited to look frequently at web messaging for any changes.
B020710 - Storia della radio e della televisione (72 hours/ 12 cfu)
Course Degree Dams – Year 2018-2019
Borrowed Course B027792 - Storia della radio e della televisione (36 hours / 6 cfu) for CdL B219
Program
Institutional part: Outlines of the history of radio and television in Italy
- The complex and plural identity of medias and the notion of the media system - the media landscape and the development of communication the late nineteenth century.
- From wireless telegraph to radio broadcasting - Guglielmo Marconi - The birth of Uri and radio as a music box.
- From URI to EIAR. Genres and languages in classical radio broadcastings: variety show (the case of Quattro moschettieri), radio dramas (L’anello di Teodosio).
- Radio and Fascism: information and comments (Il discorso della battaglia del grano, Cronache del regime) and propaganda (the radio for children: Il cantuccio dei bambini, Il giornalino del fanciullo). The radio during the war and the case of Radio Londra
- Radio and Liberation (Italia combatte, Le avventure di Cico e pallina, Vi parla Alberto Sordi).
- From radiovision to TV - 1954: The television boom (Sanremo) - The "pedagogical TV" (L’amico degli animali, Una risposta per voi, Telescuola, ....).
- The programs that have made the TV: the quiz show from Lascia o raddoppia to Rischiatutto. The variety show: the birth of the genre and of the language of television (Un, due, tre, Studio uno, Canzonissima). The romance TV novelization: Promessi sposi
- The radio after the birth of television (Il microfono è vostro, L’Approdo, Clausura) - 70s: monopoly and oligopoly by the phenomenon of free radio (Radio Sicilia Libera, Radio popolare, Radio Alice, etc.). The radio reorganization of Piccioni(Alto gradimento, Chiamate Roma 3131, Bandiera gialla).
- The great technological changes: color, cable, remote control, satellites - The case of Tele Biella - The Rai reforms: by Law 103 to Mammi Law - The emergence of private broadcasting (I sogni nel cassetto, Mondialito, Sentieri, Dallas).
- From "paleotelevisione" to neotelevision (Portobello, Domenica in, Pronto, Raffaella? Non è la Rai, Drive in). Quiz and game show: the great investment of commercial TV in the era of the Internet.
Monographic part: Characters and dissemination of seriality in the Italian television
- Aesthetics of repetition and series in modern industrial society. Social functions of fiction and genres of television series: series (sitcoms, anthology, spin off) and serials (soap opera, soap opera, mini-series, long series or continuous serials).
- Serialization and television as library and reprocessing of the iconographic heritage: from Pinocchio (G. Antamoro, 1911) to The Adventures of Pinocchio (L. Comencini, 1972) through Disney.
- The penetration of US TV series in the Italian television: from Rin Tin Tin (1954) to Happy Days (1974). The Italian TV show: Racconti dell’Italia di ieri (1961). Analysis of Il tenente Sheridan. Buio alle otto (1959) and of Le inchieste del commissario Maigret. Un Natale di Maigret (Mario Landi, 1965). The sitcom: Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca (Lina Wertmuller, 1964)
- The Italian serialization and novelization of Romance. Analysis of la cittadella (Anton Giulio Majano, 1964), Il segno del comando (Daniele D'Anza, 1971) and Geminus (Luciano Emmer, 1969)
- The second and third Golden Age of US television drama from Hill Street Blues (1981-1987), Miami Vice (1984-1989), É.R. (1994-2009), to Twin Peaks (1990-1991) and 24 (2001-2010)
- The new television epic: the continous series. The telenovela and creations of Gilberto Braga: La schiava Isaura (1976) and Dancing Days (1978). Analysis of Terra nostra (1999-2000) e Un posto al sole (1996).
- The serial nature of the endless soap opera: Irna Philips and Agnes Nixon. The spread in Italy: from Dallas (1978-1991) to Beautiful (1987-).
- Anomalies in the Italian TV market: the Nineties and the production of Italian fiction. The miniseries from La piovra (1984) to the case Montalbano. Analysis of Gli arancini di Montalbano (Alberto Sironi, 2002). The case of Distretto di polizia(2000).
Bibliography:
1. F. Monteleone, Storia della radio e della televisione in Italia, Marsilio, Venezia (last edition) only these parts:
Chap. I: “La grande strada dell’etere” / Chap. III: “La parola elettrica” / Chap. IV: “La parola autoritaria” (only § 1, 2) / Chap. V: “La folla domestica” (only § 2, 4) / Chap. VI: “Voci in guerra” (only §1, 2 , 4, 5) /Chap. VII: “Dagli alleati alla democrazia” (only § 1, 2, 3) /Chap. VIII: “Radio italiana” (only § 4, 5) / Chap. IX: “Vedere a distanza” (only § 1, 2) / Chap. X: “Il magico occhio luminoso” (only § 3, 4, 5, 6) / Chap. XI: “Ribalta accesa” (only § 4, 6) / Chap. XII: “Anni di piombo” / Chap. XIII: “Nel mercato elettronico” (only § 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) /Chap. XIV: “Restate in ascolto” / Chap. XV: “Una difficile transizione” (only § 1, 2, 3, 15, 17, 18)
2. P. Valentini, Televisione e gioco. Quiz e società italiana, Archetipo, Bologna 2013
3. D. Cardini, La lunga serialità televisiva, Carocci, Roma 2004
4. Filmography: radio and TV broadcastings examinated during lessons and indicated in the program must be well known and could be a question during the exam Students should watch and listen again each radio e tv program using link in e-learnign Platform.
Part-time students
Part time students, if they did not attend, they must substitute the hours of attendance by adding the text P. Valentini, Presenze sonore. Il passaggio al sonoro in Italia tra cinema e radio, Le Lettere, Firenze 2007 (everything except: Introduction - Chapter 2 - Chapter 6).
Prerequisites:
The course requires registration to the Moodle e-learning Platform (http://e-l.unifi.it/): the key entry will be announced at the beginning of the lessons and it will expires in 10 days; After that date student will have to contact the professor for the individual registration. The study materials published therein, and in particular the links to movies, are an integral part of the study program.
Students of the borrowed course B020710-Storia della radio e della televisione (36 hours / 6 cfu) will have to study only subject 1 to 11 included in the e-learning platform. It is not allowed to use both codes, B020710 e B027792, in the study plan and to make both the exams.
Examination Methods
The course, as required by University of Florence; for access to examination students must have gained at least 75% of lessons (i.e. 54 hours for 12 cfu, 27 hours for 6 cfu). Student's signatures will be collected during lessons. The exam consists of a written test on 3-4 open questions; "Appelli straordinari", reserved to specific kind of student designated by Scuola, will be held in oral form. For sufficiency it is compulsory to answer all questions. Anyone wishing to take the exam in oral form should agree a written report with the teacher.
Students not registrated on e-learning platform will not be admitted to the final exam.
Non-attending students will not be admitted to the final exam if they didn't agree a special program with the teacher during front desk hours.
Class schedule: Monday 13:00-15:00, Tuesday 13:00-17:00, Wednesday 13:00-15:00 (Class 8, Via Capponi 9, ground floor). Front desk: Wednesday 9.00-11.00 Dip.to disas (via Gino Capponi, 9 - Room 8, 1st floor).
Students are invited to look frequently at web messaging for any changes.