Master Class 16+ | The fantastic of today between cinema and TV series

The meeting will focus on transformations of the fantastic and sci-fi genre in recent years. On one hand, genre cinema is trying to chase the political, social and scientific innovations that have recently emerged, on the other hand television seems to have taken up the legacy of the big screen for its ability to comment on the present through future dystopias, as in Black Mirror. An overview and a popular analysis will allow us to orient ourselves in an often chaotic but very vital production: as always the fantastic is the prism through which to understand the reality that surrounds us.

Roy Menarini, film critic and university lecturer, graduated in Modern Literature in 1995, with a thesis entitled Film criticism in Italian newspapers from 1977-1995, and in 2003 obtained the qualification of Associate Professor at the University of Udine. On 15 October 2013, after a comparative evaluation process organized by the University of Bologna, he took up his duties at the Rimini headquarters of the Alma Mater Studiorum. In addition to numerous collaborations and curators in the cultural field, he was editor and director of scientific journals, such as Fotogenia, Immagine, Close Up – Stories of the Vision, Segnocinema and Cinergie.