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1.Teaching the Art of Comics by Chris Gavaler 11164.6_244.1.23.qxd 19/02/21 16:18 Pagina 1 1 1 Il presente volume, partendo da oggetti e prodotti mediatici con cui si ha 1 6 a che fare nell' esperienza quotidiana (serie tv, romanzi, film, fumetti), vuole 4 . 6 TEORIA SOCIOLOGICA rendere familiari alcuni concetti sociologici di base e allo steso tempo inter - pretare sociologicamente i prodotti culturali volta per volta presi in conside - M razione. E INDUSTRIA CULTURALE Questi oggetti vengono qui affrontati come occasione per una riflessione V i s di carattere generale sui concetti fondamentali della sociologia. In questo e n senso, il volume è il tentativo di coinvolgere come lettori attivi gli studenti di t i n scienze sociali, attraverso alcuni dei concetti più più noti nella sociologia clas - , sica e contemporanea, andando oltre la sola definizione teorica. Ogni saggio O Comics, serie tv, . di questo volume può diventare così un esercizio di apprendimento attivo G i proprio perché basato sull'analisi di un prodotto culturale del nostro tempo. a letteratura e cinema n Obiettivo primario di chi fa sociologia non è solo parlare alla comunità di c o “addetti ai lavori” ma anche mostrare ai newcomers quanto essa si configu - l a ( ri come un sapere applicabile alla vita quotidiana, anche rispetto agli ogget - a c ti più inattesi. Le analisi dei prodotti della cultura pop, che qui sono presen - u A cura di Martina Visentin r a tati, possono offrire quindi uno specchio attraverso cui mostrare l'ordinario d i nello straordinario, le regolarità nelle eccezioni, fornendo opportunità per ri - ) e Orazio Giancola flettere e confrontare prospettive di genere, etnia, classe sociale e altro an - T cora, dialogando sia con gli accademici sia con coloro che sono interessati a E O un’analisi rigorosa, teoricamente e metodologicamente fondata, della realtà R I sociale . A S Martina Visentin è ricercatrice in Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunica - O tivi presso l’Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e C I O Studi Internazionali (SPGI). I suoi interessi di ricerca convergono sule culture del L welfare locale, le transizioni alla vita adulta e le trasformazioni culturali. Fra le sue O G Y ultime pubblicazioni ricordiamo: con Salmieri L. (2020), Il Mondo che abbiamo N I perso. L’Università e l’ecologia della presenza ; (2019), Identità instabili nell’epoca del C A E G cambiamento accelerato: un approfondimento qualitativo , FrancoAngeli . E I P N O Orazio Giancola è professore associato in Sociologia dei processi culturali e co - D U municativi, Università di Roma “Sapienza”. Le sue aree di ricerca si muovono fra la L O S comparazione dei sistemi educativi e universitari, le diseguaglianze e l’equità in T educazione, i processi socializzativi e la transizione alla vita adulta. Fra le sue ulti - R I O A me pubblicazioni: con Colarusso S. (2020), Università e nuove forme di valutazio - I C ne: Strategie individuali, produzione scientifica, effetti istituzionali, Sapienza Uni - U C versità Editrice; con Benadusi L. (2021), Equità e merito nella scuola. Teorie, inda - L T gini empiriche, politiche FrancoAngeli . U R O A L S Franc oAngeli E La passione per le conoscenze ISBN 978-88-351-1635-6 € 13,00 (edizione fuori commercio ) OPEN SOCIOLOGY Open Sociology Direzione scientifica Linda Lombi, Michele Marzulli (Università Cattolica di Milano) Open Sociology è una collana che si propone di racco- gliere contributi, sia di taglio teorico che empirico, sui temi chiave della sociologia. Open significa innanzitutto la scelta di un modello editoriale di condivisione del sapere (open access), ma anche un’idea di conoscenza aperta e interdisci- plinare, in cui la sociologia non rinuncia a sconfinamenti, scambi e confronti con le altre scienze umane. L’apertura si riferisce anche alla possibilità concreta data a giovani stu- diosi e ricercatori di proporre iniziative editoriali e progetti culturali innovativi. Infatti, la collana è guidata da un Comitato scientifico e una Direzione composta da giovani studiosi, ma non rinuncia al confronto con un comitato internazionale e al supporto di un Comitato di saggi che garantisce della validità delle proposte. La rivoluzione digitale degli ultimi anni, insieme a molti altri cambiamenti che hanno investito la società contemporanea, ha comportato la possibilità di comunicare in maniera aperta i contenuti del sapere che tradizionalmente erano rimasti chiusi nell’accademia. In quanto open access, la collana mira a diffondere la conoscenza sociologica attra- verso un orientamento di apertura e accessibilità, favorendo la spendibilità del sapere in tutti i contesti, istituzionali e non, in cui questa forma di pubblicazione rappresenta un requisito indispensabile. I manoscritti proposti sono sottoposti a referaggio in doppio cieco. Copyright © 2021 by FrancoAngeli s.r.l., Milano, Italy. ISBN 9788835122074 Comitato scientifico OPEN SOCIOLOGY Biagio Aragona (Università di Napoli), Davide Arcidiacono (Università di Catania), Charlie Barnao (Università di Catanzaro), Davide Bennato (Università di Catania), Alessia Bertolazzi (Università di Macerata), Silvia Cervia (Università di Pisa), Romina Deriu (Università di Sassari), Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto (Università di Torino), Angela Genova (Università di Urbino), Fabio Introini (Università Cattolica di Milano), Cristina Lonardi (Università di Verona), Roberto Lusardi (Università di Bergamo), Elena Macchioni (Università di Bologna), Natalia Magnani (Università di Trento), Beba Molinari (Università di Catanzaro), Veronica Moretti (Università di Bologna), Luca Mori (Università di Verona), Matteo Moscatelli (Università Cattolica di Milano), Sara Nanetti (Università Cattolica di Milano), Marta Pantalone (Università di Venezia), Nicola Pasini (Università degli Studi di Milano), Nicoletta Pavesi (Università Cattolica di Milano), Marco Pedroni (Università eCampus), Annamaria Perino (Università di Trento), Paolo Parra Saiani (Università di Genova), Alessandra Sannella (Università di Cassino), Mariagrazia Santagati (Università Cattolica di Milano), Alice Scavarda (Università di Torino). Comitato dei saggi Natale Ammaturo (Università di Salerno), Elena Besozzi (Università Cattolica di Milano), Andrea Bixio (Università “La Sapienza” di Roma), Bernardo Cattarinussi (Università di Udine), Alessandro Cavalli (Università di Pavia), Vincenzo Cesareo (Università Cattolica di Milano), Costantino Cipolla (Università di Bologna), Roberto Cipriani (Università Roma Tre), Pierpaolo Donati (Università di Bologna), Renzo Gubert (Università di Trento), Clemente Lanzetti (Università Cattolica di Milano), Alberto Marradi (Università di Firenze), Rosanna Memoli (Università “La Sapienza” di Roma), Everardo Minardi (Università di Teramo), Mauro Niero (Università di Verona), Nicola Porro (Università di Cassino), Giovanna Rossi (Università Cattolica di Milano), Ernesto Savona (Università Cattolica di Milano), Antonio Scaglia (Università di Trento), Raimondo Strassoldo (Università di Udine), Willem Tousijn (Università di Torino). Comitato internazionale Ilona Biernacka-Ligięza (University of Marie Curie-Sklodowska - Polonia), Carlos Gallegos Elías (Unam - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Carlos Gutiérrez Rohàn (Universidad de Sonora - Mexico), Juan Ignacio Piovani (Universidad Nacional de La Plata - Argentina), Ericka Johnson (Linkoping University - Svezia), Victoria Robinson (York University - Regno Unito), Karen Willis (La Trobe University - Australia). Copyright © 2021 by FrancoAngeli s.r.l., Milano, Italy. ISBN 9788835122074 COPY 15,5X23 1-02-2016 8:56 Pagina 1 TEORIA SOCIOLOGICA E INDUSTRIA CULTURALE Comics, serie tv, letteratura e cinema A cura di Martina Visentin e Orazio Giancola OPEN SOCIOLOGY Copyright © 2021 by FrancoAngeli s.r.l., Milano, Italy. ISBN 9788835122074 La pubblicazione di questo volume è stata possibile grazie al contributo dei fondi di Dotazione Ordinaria della Ricerca del Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuri- diche e Studi Internazionali (SPGI) dell’Università degli Studi di Padova. Progetto grafico di copertina di Elena Pellegrini Copyright © 2021 by FrancoAngeli s.r.l., Milano, Italy. Pubblicato con licenza Creative Commons Attribuzione-Non Commerciale-Non opere derivate 4.0 Internazionale (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0) L’opera, comprese tutte le sue parti, è tutelata dalla legge sul diritto d’autore. L’Utente nel mo- mento in cui effettua il download dell’opera accetta tutte le condizioni della licenza d’uso dell’opera previste e comunicate sul sito https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.it Copyright © 2021 by FrancoAngeli s.r.l., Milano, Italy. ISBN 9788835122074 Indice Introduzione: il sociale e il sociologico nella produ- pag. 9 zione culturale di massa, di Martina Visentin e Orazio Giancola 1. Teaching the Art of Comics, di Chris Gavaler »19 Insegnando attraverso l’arte dei fumetti, di Chris Ga- » 32 valer (traduzione di Martina Visentin e Orazio Giancola) 2. Per una lettura sociologicamente sensibile dei pro- » 44 dotti culturali ( o contro il radicalismo critico), di Orazio Giancola 3. All new, all different? I ‘meravigliosi’ paradossi di » 63 Kamala Khan, di Martina Visentin, Winona Landis e Riccardo Prandini 4. Il tempo e i suoi significati attraverso i romanzi di- » 75 stopici italiani, di Riccardo Prandini e Giuseppe Rizzi 5. Ordine sociale e conflitto morale nel romanzo poli- » 88 ziesco contemporaneo (Tre excursus per una didattica spinoziana), di Luca Martignani 6. Serie Tv e moda. L’esempio di Sex Education, » 104 di Antonella Mascio 7. Voglia di fantasy: comunità
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