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Research activities

 

Cinema and Media

The research activities embrace many fields of expertise, from an interdisciplinary point of view, which does not only show concern in the historiographical, theoretical and performing aspects of audiovisual languages, but also in the role of new media technologies in contemporary society:

  • History of the Media (from the late 19th century to the current period).
  • Theory and History of Film Textuality, with specific attention to its style and stylistics.
  • History of Italian Cinema (Silent Cinema, the Fascist period, contemporary Italian cinema, film production in Piedmont).
  • History of classical, modern and contemporary Hollywood Cinema.
  • Acting, Actoriality and Stardom in Italian and American cinema. 
  • Organisation of Cinema Production and of work in the film locations. 
  • Film Spectatorship, with specific reference to Silent Cinema. 
  • History of Cinema Theory in Italy (the origins). 
  • Semiotics of audiovisual texts. 
  • History and Theory of Screenwriting. 
  • Experimental Cinema: historiographical and theoretical aspects. 
  • Animated Cinema. 
  • Theoretical and technological aspects of Film Sound.
  • Relationship between Italian Literature and Cinema.
  • Relationship between Theatre, Cinema and Television.
  • Relationship between Cinema and History, with particular attention to the First World War.
  • Relationship between Cinema and the Mind Sciences.
  • Relationship between Cinema and Industry.
  • Relationship between New Technologies and Audiovisual Language (HD Cinema, Computer Graphics, Digital Animation, the use of live video technology in performing contexts, Mapping, Video Installations, online videos, videos captured with mobile phones).
  • Video Art and Music Videos.
  • Transformations of the Mythical World in contemporary societies.
  • Theoretical and historical aspects of Recreation, also in relation to technological innovation (e.g. online gambling).

Theatre
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The main research fields are:

  • The scene of the Performer in its various forms
  • Nordic Performing in the 19th and 20th centuries, Avant-garde Theatre
  • Yiddish Theatre
  • The Russian Theatre of the 20th century
  • The Italian Direction
  • The relationship between Theatre and the Media
  • Dance and Choreutics
  • Social and Community Theatre
  • Theatre and Neuroscience, theories on acting
  • The Italian actor in the 19th and 20th  centuries.

Music

The research branches out in many directions and covers several areas of specialisation, with a particular reference to the Musical Cultures of the modern and contemporary world, regardless of social classes in the production and enjoyment of music, through different methodological approaches that employ the Historical Method, the Cultural and Anthropological one, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Semiology and Sociology. Special attention is paid to the sources in the field of Philology and Archival Science, to performance, to the reception of musical works, to the integration and interaction of languages, especially in the audiovisual field, to the history and technology of audio media in the contemporary practise of art production systems and of the industry of culture and communication.

The main topics of study and research are:

  • History and Aesthetics of Opera and Celebratory Musical Performance in the 18th and 19th centuries (Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, Verdi)
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  • Social History of Italian Opera in the 18th century
  • Italian Instrumental Music in the 18th century (Vivaldi, Piedmontese Violin School: Somis, Giardini, Pugnani, Viotti)
  • German Musical Romanticism (Schumann)
  • Symphonic Poem (Liszt)
  • Conflicts, Diasporas and Development of Identity through Music
  • Music, Sounds and Video Games
  • Music, Tourism and Cultural Anthropology
  • Analysis and Reception of French Music between the 19th and 20th centuries (Debussy)
  • Second Viennese School
  • Opera Direction
  • Musical Criticism
  • History and Function of Musical Instruments; History of the Piano (Italy, France)
  • History of Musical Press and Publishing
  • Management and Cataloguing of Manuscript and Printed Music
  • Musical Heritage and New Technologies
  • Popular Music
  • Sound Studies
  • Anthropology of Music and Sound
  • Film Music, History and Technology of Film Sound
  • Clichés and Topoi in the Music of Mainstream Hollywood Cinema
  • Anthropology of the Creative Process in Music
  • Music and Ritual, Music and Carnivals
  • Oral Polyvocality
  • Oral Liturgical and Paraliturgical Music
  • Music, Choreutics and Rituals in communities of migrants
  • Theory of Organ Systematics
  • Ethno-organology
  • Theory and Practice of Musical Instruments and Audio Media Restoration
  • Identitarianism, Political Contestation and development of the concept of “Popular” in the music of the 20th century
  • Research, Folk-Music-Revival and development of the “Musical Identity” of Piedmont
  • History of Ethnomusicology and History of Field Research on the role of Sound within Culture
  • Sound-Image and the Audiovision Theory
  • Theory, Practice and Aesthetics of Multi-channel Sound Capture
  • Museography and Musical Experience
  • Music, Sounds and Video Games
  • Music, Tourism and Cultural Anthropology
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