Comparative evaluation procedure for n. 1 post-doc research contract - Department of of the Arts

Title of the project: " Mediating Illness: Narratives of Illness and Vulnerable Celebrities in Italian Audiovisual and Digital Media". To examine the narratives of illness produced by celebrities, also in relation to the narrative and visual tropes already established in audiovisual culture. Celebrities’ practices of self-representation take the form of reactivating and negotiating these models: the account of the diagnosis, the staging of the therapeutic journey, the aestheticization of the fragile body, and the construction of a narrative of illness draw on already recognizable codes, helping to rework them. The project aims to investigate the processes through which traditional media, digital platforms, and fandom transform the celebrity’s body into a public archive of suffering, care, and transformation...Omissis.