Teaching code

4S013386

Teacher

Simona Brunetti

Coordinator

Simona Brunetti

Credits

1

Also offered in courses:

• Call them, if you want, Graphic novels. Italian comics in the New Millennium, Study Conference 21-23 November 2024 of the course Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage
• Call them, if you want, Graphic novels. Italian comics in the New Millennium, Study Conference 21-23 November 2024 of the course Bachelor’s degree in Humanities
• Call them, if you want, Graphic novels. Italian comics in the New Millennium, Study Conference 21-23 November 2024 of the course Master’s degree in Tradition and Interpretation of Literary Texts
• Call them, if you want, Graphic novels. Italian comics in the New Millennium, Study Conference 21-23 November 2024 of the course Master’s degree in Publishing and Journalism

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

NN - -

Period

CuCi 1 B dal Nov 11, 2024 al Dec 21, 2024.

Erasmus students

Not available

Courses Single

Not Authorized

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning objectives

The aim of the seminar is the analysis of the current Italian situation and the ambition to contribute to the recognition of the dignity and autonomy of the language of the comic strip-Grapich Novel.

Prerequisites and basic notions

None.

Program

Comics, which originated as a communicative medium at the same time as the cinema, have enjoyed growing success since the end of the 19th century, spanning several generations of readers who have also learned to read the world through talking clouds. First characterised as a comic cultural product, then as an action adventure and finally as a Graphic Novel, with this latest phase it seems to have reached the season of maturity and a completeness of language. The last few years mark the transition from the serial comic book, which was mainly distributed at newsstands, to the book format, which has allowed it to be published in bookshops or distributed on the Internet with the digital version. The comic book-GrapichNovel is more: it dialogues with, inspires and is inspired by cinema, television series, theatre, literature, music and, therefore, connotes itself in contemporary times as a transmedia medium. An expression of an avant-garde that dialogues as much with the elites as with the general public, as melodrama and cinema did and do, the Graphic Novel paradoxically has an advantage over other modern languages that require passive adherence: it asks the reader for active participation induced by the white space between one vignette and the next. A structural, indispensable gap that must be filled by the reader's creativity, otherwise the ‘text’ will not be understood. If this element has always characterised the comic strip, its expression in the Graphic Novels presents other and different characteristics, not always easy to delineate, but which connote its existence: the disappearance of seriality and especially of the long epics of popular heroes, in the light instead of a single episodicity or at any rate reduced to a dimension of a few albums; the pre-eminence of the Author, often of the complete Author who signs scripts and drawings together and who becomes, almost more than the title, a reference for the reader; the search for more complex graphic expedients, sometimes experimental, other times simplified towards almost naïve illustrations where the content, the story, intimism, reflection predominate. The legacy of the tradition of popular, serial, comic, action and adventure comics, long popularised through newsstands, and the ways or strategies through which this tradition can interact with the new distribution channels, the book format and that narrative form of romance that is originally Italian, remain to be assessed and explored. The aim of the seminar is the analysis of the current Italian situation and the ambition to contribute to the recognition of the dignity and autonomy of the language of the comic strip-GrapichNovel. On the afternoon of Thursday 21 November, a Preview, a round table discussion with the involvement of some of Verona's authors, is planned.
Partners of the initiative
University of Free Time of Negrar
Ilcorsaronero. Magazine of Salgarian Studies
Fumetto. Magazine of the National Association of Friends of Comics and Illustration
Fumo di China
Giovedì 21 novembre
Aula SMT 1
17.00 - 18.30
Anteprima
Tavola rotonda con gli autori di fumetto veronesi
Incontro informale con la cittadinanza per conoscere autrici e autori di fumetti e Graphic Novel del territorio veronese e per prepararci ai due giorni di convegno
Venerdì 22 novembre
Aula SMT 2
9.30 Saluti istituzionali
10.00-11.00
Lectio magistralis di Gianfranco Manfredi
modera Claudio Gallo
11.00-11.15 Pausa caffè
11.15-12.45 Prima sessione
Le radici nel romanzo
modera Simona Brunetti
11.15-11.45
Pier Luigi Gaspa
Il romance, storia d’azione d’avventura o di genere
11.45-12.15
Laura Scarpa
Identità variabili. Cambiamenti di contenuto e mercato nel Graphic Novel
12.15-12.45
Alessio Trabacchini (video)
Comics e Novel, una relazione tormentata
12.45-14.45 Pausa pranzo
14.45-15.45 Seconda Sessione
L’editoria che cambia
modera Fabrizio Foni
14.45-15.15
Antonio Serra
Strategie di adattamento. Le case editrice storiche e le generaliste scoprono il Graphic Novel
15.15-15.45
Giorgio Busi Rizzi
Carta, rete, tablet: il fumetto postdigitale
15.45-16.00 Pausa caffè
16.00-18.45 Terza Sessione
Percorsi narrativi del Graphic Novel
modera Federica Formiga
16.00-16.30
Alessia Mangiavillano
Tracciare nuove mappe: Il giornalismo a fumetti come lente decoloniale sui processi migratori
16.30-17.00
Nicola Pasqualicchio
È di scena il Graphic Novel
17.00-17.15 Pausa caffè
17.15-17.45
Davide Barzi
Dalla carta allo schermo: rielaborare il Graphic Novel per cinema e TV
17.45-18.15
Otto Gabos
Reperti di vite altre. La ricostruzione storica nel Graphic Novel biografico
18.15-18.45
Silvia Baroni
Graphic noir: quando la crime fiction diventa letteratura disegnata
Sabato 23 novembre
Aula SMT 2
9.30-10.30
Dialogo tra Matteo Rima e Paolo Bacilieri
10.30-11.00 Pausa caffè
11.00-12.30 Terza sessione
Questioni aperte e conclusioni
modera Andrea Campalto
11.00-11.30
Marco Pellitteri, Professore associato di media e comunicazione, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (in collegamento)
I tanti livelli di comprensione e incomprensione transculturale dei fumetti giapponesi in Italia, 1962-2024
11.30-12.00
Denis Amadio
Webtoon e Manhwa: L’epica digitale che fa impazzire la Gen Z
12.00-12.30
Alessandro Scarsella
Fumetto: poetica e semiotica all'origini di un oggetto teorico

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Lectures and discussion at the end of each session.

Learning assessment procedures

Attendance and delivery of an activity report.

Evaluation criteria

Attendance at sessions and correctness of the paper.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

Approval or non-approval of the work.

Exam language

Italiano.

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