The course will be divide into four parts. In the first part it will be analyzed the Damnatio memoriae.In the second part, the analysis of the political and social fallout that some historical events on the community and how their narrative contributed to the change of communication processes. Specifically, the communication processes related to:
Res gestae divi Augusti.
The Constitutio Antoniniana.
The Synod of the Corpse.
Clermont Appeal.
Shakespeare's Characters and their realism.
Trial of Galileo.
The taking of the Bastille.
The Killing of Lincoln.
The Libération of Auschwitz.
The Killing of JFK.
Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer and their media messages.
The perverse charm of Impostor
The problem of the Double and its repercussions as a reason for social unrest
The Suicide as a social Event
The role of public opinion and political power in the Russier case
Construction of the Berlin Wall.
The third party will have the ambition to recall the rich debate, in its political and social repercussions, within the Supreme Court on the possible limits to be placed on the protection of pornography.
Judgments analyzed:
Jacobellis vs Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964).
A book named John Cleland's memoirs of a woman of plesure vs Attorney General of Massachusetts
Paris Adult Theatre vs Slaton
Reno vs Aclu. The fourth part will analyze the importance of some comics in the collective imagination of post-war italian society.