Laboratory: Art, Culture and Organized Crime

A.Y. 2024/2025
3
Max ECTS
20
Overall hours
SSD
SPS/07
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
Studying the representation of mafias through the media means understanding the categories and the process of constructing the social image of the mafia. This is a central issue in the analysis of these criminal phenomena, which have proven to be able to strengthen themselves with the imagery produced by the media, which in turn feed on criminal stories, in a sort of vicious circle.
The teaching aims to explore the relationship between art, culture and organized crime, providing students with the methodological and theoretical tools useful for reading representations of the mafias, particularly in the Italian context, through literature, cinema, theater, music and photography.
Expected learning outcomes
- Knowledge of the principal definitions of "organized crime";
- Ability to analyze constitutive elements of criminal sense-making;
- Critical analysis of audio-video material;
- Ability to identify symbolic and strategic importance of storytelling and its instruments;
- Knowledge of cultural instruments in the fight against organized crime
Single course

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Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible
Lesson period
Second trimester
SPS/07 - GENERAL SOCIOLOGY - University credits: 3
Laboratories: 20 hours
Professor: Meli Ilaria
Shifts:
Turno
Professor: Meli Ilaria
Professor(s)