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Tipo di tesi
Tesi di laurea magistrale
Autore
SONNINI, MICHELE
URN
etd-01082016-130813
Titolo
Che il tele-massacro abbia inizio! La violenza televisiva nella letteratura distopica
Dipartimento
FILOLOGIA, LETTERATURA E LINGUISTICA
Corso di studi
LINGUE E LETTERATURE MODERNE EUROAMERICANE
Relatori
relatore Prof. Grilli, Alessandro
controrelatore Beccone, Simona
controrelatore Beccone, Simona
Parole chiave
- sentimenti
- morte
- mercificazione
- televisione
- distopia
- violenza
Data inizio appello
08/02/2016
Consultabilità
Completa
Riassunto
The Twentieth Century was characterized by many violent events, such as World Wars, the Holocaust and many financial crises; at the same time, it saw the birth of a new innovative medium, named television.
Since 1960, television has become one of the most popular media, attracting the attention of researchers and philosophers: this resulted in a very large number of theories and studies about its effects on the audience, while in the meantime it became one of the most fascinating aspects of Twentieth Century dystopias.
From the study of many fictional works, I found out that violence on television has many fundamental characteristics: my first purpose is to identify them, illustrating its various shapes with the help of fictional examples. This study will cover some classic dystopias such as Nineteen Eighty-four and Fahrenheit 451, starting from the concept of television as a population control source; and ending up with many other features, like violent reality shows, death on television, suffering and pain, dehumanization and so on. The essay is divided into four main sections, in which we will analyze the concept’s pre-conditions, goals, resources and consequences plus three appendices dealing with the history of bloody reality games, the effects of violence on television on children, and the hidden camera phenomenon.
While analyzing these characteristics, I will also try to connect reality and fiction, applying media theories to the corpus of fictional works: my final goal is to show how studies and experiments referring to the external real world can be applied to television violence in dystopic literature, as well.
The fictional works examined are:
G. Orwell - Nineteen Eighy-Four,
R. Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451,
S. Pollack - They shoot horses, don’t they? (movie),
B. Tavernier - La mort en direct (movie),
A. Jodorwksy, Moebius - L’incal (comics),
R. Bachman (S. King) - The Running Man,
P. Weir - The Truman Show (movie),
K. Fukasaku - Battle Royale (movie),
A. Nothomb - Acide Sulfurique,
O. Bathurst, E. Lyn - Black Mirror (ep. I and II) (tv series),
G. Ross - The Hunger Games (movie).
Since 1960, television has become one of the most popular media, attracting the attention of researchers and philosophers: this resulted in a very large number of theories and studies about its effects on the audience, while in the meantime it became one of the most fascinating aspects of Twentieth Century dystopias.
From the study of many fictional works, I found out that violence on television has many fundamental characteristics: my first purpose is to identify them, illustrating its various shapes with the help of fictional examples. This study will cover some classic dystopias such as Nineteen Eighty-four and Fahrenheit 451, starting from the concept of television as a population control source; and ending up with many other features, like violent reality shows, death on television, suffering and pain, dehumanization and so on. The essay is divided into four main sections, in which we will analyze the concept’s pre-conditions, goals, resources and consequences plus three appendices dealing with the history of bloody reality games, the effects of violence on television on children, and the hidden camera phenomenon.
While analyzing these characteristics, I will also try to connect reality and fiction, applying media theories to the corpus of fictional works: my final goal is to show how studies and experiments referring to the external real world can be applied to television violence in dystopic literature, as well.
The fictional works examined are:
G. Orwell - Nineteen Eighy-Four,
R. Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451,
S. Pollack - They shoot horses, don’t they? (movie),
B. Tavernier - La mort en direct (movie),
A. Jodorwksy, Moebius - L’incal (comics),
R. Bachman (S. King) - The Running Man,
P. Weir - The Truman Show (movie),
K. Fukasaku - Battle Royale (movie),
A. Nothomb - Acide Sulfurique,
O. Bathurst, E. Lyn - Black Mirror (ep. I and II) (tv series),
G. Ross - The Hunger Games (movie).
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