In this edited volume, an authoritative collective work produced by the intellectual efforts of more than forty scholars gathered at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan in September 2022 for the international conference Dystopian Worlds Beyond Storytelling, the reader will find a comprehensive analysis of dystopian worlds and scenarios. Following a multidisciplinary approach, topics as political orders and techno-dystopias, de-humanized worlds and contaminations, literature and performing arts, transmedia narratives, catastrophic and apocalyptic imaginaries are analyzed in depth.
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Valerio Alfonso Bruno
Valerio Alfonso Bruno is Research Fellow at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, where he collaborates with Polidemos (Center for the Study of Democracy and Political Change) and fellow at the Far-Right Analyis Network (FRAN). Bruno is a specialist on the Italian far-right and has recently contributed to the Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe and the Handbook Non-Violent Extremism. His online analyses have appeared, among others, on Al Jazeera, Financial Times, The Economist, France24.
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Antonio Campati
Antonio Campati is Research Fellow at Catholic University of Sacred Heart (Milan). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Rivista italiana di filosofia politica and Power and Democracy. His research interests mainly focus on the transformations of political representation, the role of elites and the theories of democracy. Author of the books: La distanza democratica. Corpi intermedi e rappresentanza politica (Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2022) and I migliori al potere. La qualità nella rappresentanza politica (Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2016). He also edited: Democrazia e liberalismo: un connubio da ripensare? (Apes, Roma, 2022), Cittadinanza e sogno europeo. Partecipazione e inclusione tra vincoli e opportunità (Mimesis, Milano, 2019) and Democracy and Disintermediation. A Dangerous Relationship (with D. Palano, Educatt, Milano, 2022).
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Anna Sfardini
Anna Sfardini is Assistant Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan) where she teaches Intercultural Communication and Research Methods on Media Production and Consumption. She is Senior Researcher at Ce.R.T.A. (Research Centre for Television and Audiovisual Media, at Università Cattolica), and Didactic Director of the Master course “Fare TV. Gestione, Sviluppo Comunicazione”. Her principal field is media and television studies with a focus on media convergence, audiences, TV genres, mediatization of politics, TV for women and for kids. She is the author of several papers and books including Reality TV (Unicopli, 2009), La TV delle donne. Brand, programmi e pubblici (Unicopli, 2015, with C. Penati), La politica pop (Il Mulino, 2009, with G. Mazzoleni), La televisione. Modelli teorici e percorsi di analisi (Carocci, 2017, with M. Scaglioni).
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Paolo Carelli
Paolo Carelli is Assistant Professor at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and Brescia where he teaches Media Theory, Broadcasting History and Media and Digital Communication for International Business. Senior Researcher at Ce.R.T.A. - Research Centre for Television and Audiovisual Media, he is didactic coordinator of the Master course “Fare TV. Gestione, Sviluppo, Comunicazione”. His main field of research is television studies with a focus on transformation of national media systems, relationship between TV and sports and representation of locations in TV products. He has published several articles on international journals and his latest book is Il passaggio al 5G e gli effetti sul sistema radio-televisivo locale (with A. Sfardini, Rubbettino 2020).
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Damiano Palano
Damiano Palano is Full professor of Political Philosophy and Director of Political Sciences Department at Catholic University of Sacred Heart (Milan). He teaches “Political Science” and “Political Theory of the Global Age”. He is currently engaged in a research project on the transformation of democracy and on the rise of populism. Recent publications include the books: Bubble democracy. La fine del pubblico e la nuova polarizzazione (Scholé-Morcelliana, Brescia, 2020); Il mondo fragile. Scenari globali dopo la pandemia (Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2020; ed. with R. Caruso); Il segreto del potere. Alla ricerca di un’ontologia del “politico” (Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2018); Populismo (Bibliografica, Milano, 2017).
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Massimo Scaglioni
Massimo Scaglioni is Full Professor of Media History and Media Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan. He is also Adjunct Professor of Transmedia Narratives and Television: Industry and Languages at USI - Università della Svizzera Italiana, in Lugano. He is the co-founder and current Director of Ce.R.T.A. (Research Centre for Television and Audiovisual Media at Università Cattolica) and Director of the Master course “Fare TV. Gestione, Sviluppo, Comunicazione” at ALMED. Massimo Scaglioni is currently co-applicant on the Global Media and Internet Concentration (GMIC) Project, an international research project that has been awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; he has been the Principal Investigator of the three-year research project CinCit. International Circulation of Italian Cinema funded by MIUR (PRIN 2015 Program). He has published various volumes on media and broadcasting history and industry both as an author and as an editor, including: La televisione nella pandemia. Intrattenimento, fiction, informazione e sport nell’anno del Covid-19. Annuario 2021 (Carocci, 2021); A European Television Fiction Renaissance: Premium Production Models and Transnational Circulation (Routledge, 2021, with L. Barra); Cinema Made in Italy. La circolazione internazionale dell’audiovisivo italiano (Carocci, 2020), L’altro virus. Comunicazione e disinformazione al tempo del Covid-19 (Vita e Pensiero, 2020, with M. Sala).
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Stefania Antonioni
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Luca Barra
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Anja Boato
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Daniela Cardini
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Manuela Ceretta
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Patricia Chiantera-Stutte
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Raffaele Chiarulli
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Fabio Ciammella
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Paola Dalla Torre
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Lorenzo Denicolai
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Alessandro Dividus
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Vassilis Galanos
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Luca Gendolavigna
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Ivo Stefano Germano
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Giovanni Giovanni Bernardini
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Mariangela La Manna
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Silvia Leonzi
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Jovana Malinarić
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Emiliano Marra
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Antonella Mascio
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Ivana Mette
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Marco Milani
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Aske Hennelund Nielsen
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Massimiliano Panarari
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Romina Perni
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Miriam Petrini
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Andrea Piano
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Grazia Quercia
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Matteo Quinto
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Enrico Reggiani
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Gianni Sibilla
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Mario Tirino
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Joseph Trotta
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Adriano Vinale
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Guido Vitiello
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Maria Teresa Zanola
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| Edited by | Valerio Alfonso Bruno, Antonio Campati, Anna Sfardini, Paolo Carelli |
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| Preface by | Damiano Palano |
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| Afterword by | Massimo Scaglioni |
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| Contributions by | Stefania Antonioni, Luca Barra, Anja Boato, Daniela Cardini, Manuela Ceretta, Patricia Chiantera-Stutte, Raffaele Chiarulli, Fabio Ciammella, Paola Dalla Torre, Lorenzo Denicolai, Alessandro Dividus, Vassilis Galanos, Luca Gendolavigna, Ivo Stefano Germano, Giovanni Giovanni Bernardini, Mariangela La Manna, Silvia Leonzi, Jovana Malinarić, Emiliano Marra, Antonella Mascio, Ivana Mette, Marco Milani, Aske Hennelund Nielsen, Massimiliano Panarari, Romina Perni, Miriam Petrini, Andrea Piano, Grazia Quercia, Matteo Quinto, Enrico Reggiani, Gianni Sibilla, Mario Tirino, Joseph Trotta, Adriano Vinale, Guido Vitiello, Maria Teresa Zanola |
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466
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English
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04.11.2024
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8,3 in x 5,8 in
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978-3-8382-1830-4
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634 g
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