Amnésia is a sort of mockumentary that tells the story of a young man, Matteo Caccia, a former speaker at italian public radio, who suffered of a form of Amnésia that cancelled all the memories of his first 32 years of life. Amnésia is the story of a man who is living every day as it was the first. Every day Matteo tells the listeners about his new life, using the languages of radio and multimedia. The War of the Worlds by Orson Welles was the first radiodrama that blurred fiction with reality. Different theories tried to understand the audience reactions to that broadcast. Welles has been the first to show us how media representations of reality could be realistic but false at the same time. Many years have passed since that radio drama was aired; the audience has been accustomed to a more complex mediascape and refined his media expertise but the case of italian radio drama Amnésia show us how radio can still play a powerful role in structuring and conditioning audience beliefs. The paper will describe the format of Amnésia and the way it blurred fiction with reality, experimenting on the genre of drama. The study will also show the different audience reaction to the programme (believers vs. non believers) through the analysis of the listeners' emails.
Blurring fiction with reality: the strange case of Amnésia, an Italian mockumentary, 2011.
Autori: | Bonini Baldini, Tiziano |
Data di pubblicazione: | 2011 |
Titolo: | Blurring fiction with reality: the strange case of Amnésia, an Italian mockumentary |
Luogo di pubblicazione: | Bristol |
Nazione editore: | United Kingdom |
Editore: | Intellect Books |
Titolo del libro: | Radio Content in the Digital Age |
Tutti i curatori: | Gazi Angeliki, Starkey Guy, Jedrzejewski Stanislaw |
ISBN: | 978-1-84150-423-0 |
Pagina iniziale: | 85 |
Pagina finale: | 103 |
Numero di pagine: | 18 |
Revisione (peer review): | esperti anonimi |
Rilevanza: | internazionale |
Lingua: | English |
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: | Settore L-ART/06 - Cinema, Fotografia e Televisione Settore L-ART/05 - Discipline Dello Spettacolo |
Keywords: | radio; fiction; digital culture; Orson Welles |
Abstract: | Amnésia is a sort of mockumentary that tells the story of a young man, Matteo Caccia, a former speaker at italian public radio, who suffered of a form of Amnésia that cancelled all the memories of his first 32 years of life. Amnésia is the story of a man who is living every day as it was the first. Every day Matteo tells the listeners about his new life, using the languages of radio and multimedia. The War of the Worlds by Orson Welles was the first radiodrama that blurred fiction with reality. Different theories tried to understand the audience reactions to that broadcast. Welles has been the first to show us how media representations of reality could be realistic but false at the same time. Many years have passed since that radio drama was aired; the audience has been accustomed to a more complex mediascape and refined his media expertise but the case of italian radio drama Amnésia show us how radio can still play a powerful role in structuring and conditioning audience beliefs. The paper will describe the format of Amnésia and the way it blurred fiction with reality, experimenting on the genre of drama. The study will also show the different audience reaction to the programme (believers vs. non believers) through the analysis of the listeners' emails. |
Numero degli autori: | 1 |
Supporto: | A stampa |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.01 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio) |