CODE 115045 ACADEMIC YEAR 2025/2026 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 2 STORIA DELL'ARTE E VALORIZZAZ. PATRIMONIO ARTISTICO 8467 (LM-89) - GENOVA 9 cfu anno 2 LETTERATURE MODERNE E SPETTACOLO 9918 (LM-14) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR L-ART/06 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 1° Semester OVERVIEW The teaching aims to analyze and discuss some aspects of the relationship between cinema and cultural history. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The objective of the teaching is to deepen students' knowledge of the history of cinema through a culturalist perspective, analyzing its characters, themes, figures, genres and authors in relation to its relationship with the media system and with the cultural history. The aim of teaching is also to investigate cinema in a network of socio-cultural discourses that can enable students to understand its interactions with the cultural, visual, productive, and economic framework of reference. The teaching also aims to offer methodological, critical and analytical tools to understand phases, contexts and themes in the history of cinema, media and the cultural industry. AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the main theoretical and historiographical articulations of the relations between cinema and cultural history. They will have to articulate autonomous and critical views on the methods of cultural history as applied to film history and theory. They should also know and be able to articulate the main aspects of the film cases analyzed in class, and the historical and theoretical issues related to them. PREREQUISITES No prerequisites are needed. TEACHING METHODS Lectures will be held in-person, with classroom viewings and seminar discussions. All students are encouraged to register on the course page on the Aulaweb platform. Students with disabilities or DSAs are reminded that in order to request adaptations in the exam, they must first enter their certification on the University website at servizionline.unige.it in the "Students" section. The documentation will be verified by the University's Services for the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities and DSA Sector (https://rubrica.unige.it/strutture/struttura/100111). Subsequently, at least 10 days before the date of the exam, an e-mail must be sent to the teacher with whom you will take the exam, including in the knowledge copy both the School's Teacher Referent for the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities and with DSA (Prof. Elisabetta Colagrossi: elisabetta.colagrossi@unige.it) and the Sector indicated above. The e-mail should specify: the name of the teaching; the date of the call; the student's last name, first name and roll number; the compensatory tools and dispensatory measures deemed functional; and required. The contact person will confirm to the lecturer that the applicant is entitled to apply for adaptations in the examination and that these adaptations must be agreed upon with the lecturer. The lecturer will respond by informing whether the requested adaptations can be used. Requests should be sent at least 10 days before the date of the call in order to allow the lecturer(s) to evaluate the content. In particular, in case you intend to make use of maps conceptual maps for the exam (which must be much more concise than the maps used for studying) if the submission does not meet the deadline there will not be the technical time needed to make any changes. SYLLABUS/CONTENT Stardom in a cultural perspective The teaching aims to explore, within the more general field of the cultural history of cinema, the study of actorhood and stardom from a culturalist perspective. It will examine the research methodologies and studies that have dealt with Italian stardom (postwar to the present) as the emergence of reference cultures. Beyond filmic texts, articles, materials, archival documents and new sources will be analyzed to study specific aspects of the cultural history of stardom, such as its relationship to politics, fandom, gender studies, and its relationship to socio-cultural contexts. RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY 1) Gabriele Rigola, Per una storia culturale del divismo cinematografico in Italia, Meltemi, Milano (in publication) 2) Richard Dyer, Star, Kaplan, Torino, 2003 3) Federico Vitella, Lettere ad Alida Valli. Il culto di una diva nell'Italia fascista, Marsilio, Venezia, 2025 3) Materials provided by the professor at the beginning of class. For non-attendees: Giulia Muggeo, Marcello Mastroianni, Carocci, Roma, 2024. TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD GABRIELE RIGOLA Ricevimento: The professor, during class periods, receives on Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (PLEASE REMEMBER THAT IT IS MANDATORY TO BOOK AT LEAST TWO DAYS IN ADVANCE BY SENDING A MAIL TO THE TEACHER). At other times, an appointment must be arranged. For specific information regarding the course, exam schedule or thesis topics, write to gabriele.rigola@unige.it LESSONS LESSONS START September 2025. Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION The examination will be oral. Erasmus students with insufficient familiarity with the Italian language may agree on a substitute bibliography and take the exam in English or French language. ASSESSMENT METHODS In the oral examination, knowledge of the specific topics covered in the classroom and presented in the texts will be ascertained, with particular attention to analytical and critical skills in discussing themes, arguments and cases. 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