Ateneo - UPO

A history of American television series through crime series.

required filmography: 1. "Columbo" (NBC, 1968-78) 3x08: A Friend in Deed 2. "Hill Street Blues" (NBC, 1981-87) 3x01: Trial by Fury 3. "Miami Vice" (NBC, 1984-89) 2x03: Out Where the Buses Don't Run 4. "Homicide: Life on the Street" (NBC, 1993-99) 2x04: A Many Splendored Thing 5. "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999-in corso) 1x21: Nocturne 6. I seguenti episodi di "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (CBS, 2000-15): 1x07: Blood Drops 2x02: Chaos Theory 2x06: The Execution of Catherine Willows 3x15: Lady Heather's Box 4x12: Butterflied 5x01: Viva Las Vegas 5x06: What's Eating Gilbert Grissom? 5x24: Grave Danger (Part I) 5x25: Grave Danger (Part II) 6x05: Gum Drops 6x17: I Like to Watch 6x21: Rashomama 7. L'intera prima stagione (13 episodi) di "The Wire" (HBO, 2002-08) required reading: Gianluigi Rossini, Le serie tv, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016 Stefano Calabrese, Lorenzo Rossi, La Crime Fiction, Roma, Carocci, 2019 Sue Turnbull, Crime. Storia, miti e personaggi delle serie tv più popolari, Roma, Minimum Fax, 2019

The course will introduce the students to the main concepts in television language through the analysis of one significant case study

Interest and curiosity for tv series.

Frontal lessons with audiovisual materials; discussion in the classroom.

Oral exam.

Early American television. The Golden Age of American television. Quality Television. Televisuality. The second Golden Age. Contemporary television series.

Students will be evaluated in order to check the knowledge acquired during the course about historical and theoretical issues