Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Τεχνολογίες της Πληροφορίας και της Επικοινωνίας για την ΕκπαίδευσηLibrary of the School of Education
Author:
Nikolos Konstantinos
Supervisors info:
Επιβλέπουσα: Αφροδίτη Νικολαΐδου, Επίκουρη καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και ΜΜΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Συν-επιβλέπων: Γιώργος Πλειός, Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας & ΜΜΕ, ΕΚΠΑ
Συν-επιβλέπουσα: Μαρία Σφυρόερα, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα ΤΕΑΠΗ, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Όψεις και αναπαραστάσεις της ερευνητικής δημοσιογραφίας στον σύγχρονο κινηματογράφο
Translated title:
Aspects and representations of investigative journalism in contemporary cinema
Summary:
The focus of this diploma thesis is the study of aspects and representations of investigative
journalism in contemporary american cinema. Through the appeal to semiotic theory and
analysis, the ways and practices that constitute the journalist as an active subject of social
and political life are examined. The roles and manifestations of journalism in its
interweaving with communication, aesthetics and the dominant ideology are also
explored.
More specifically, the films examined are Good night, and good luck (2005) directed by
George Clooney, Spotlight by Tom McCarthy and The Post directed by Steven
Spielberg. These are films based on true stories, real events and real people in American
society. This results in the recall of an intense intertextuality and representationality that
through cinematic semantic tagging system translate transsemiotically and multimodally
revive reality.
In the light of the analysis, a series of literary practices of journalistic language also
emerge, while the latent qualities, tensions and modalities that nest in the territory of the
photographic image are highlighted. A series of cultural interpretive approaches are also
developed that enrich our analytical project: At the same time, the value and need of
media literacy as a necessary skill in the contemporary media environment is emphasized.
Technical convergences are also emerging that shape new qualities and aesthetic
affinities, at the level of mass communication and in front of the irreversible horizon of
the new digital situation. Briefly, it is noted that the appropriate use of ICT and the
framing of film education can contribute decisively to the creative socialization of the
individual persons and to the formation of a humanistic media culture, transcending the
rigidities of the analogue past.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Keywords:
Representation, cinema, journalism, semiotics, Information Communication Technologies
Number of references:
113
