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Cinema as a Place of Educational Practice during the Fascist Regime in Italy (1922-1943)
2021
The evolution of Italian cinema in the first half of the twentieth century is intertwined with the historical events that marked Italy in the period between the two world wars: the coming to power of fascism and the rise to power of Benito Mussolini. Its protectionist policy favored the growth of the film industry that, in few years, created new forms of representation and made cinema a popular and mass art with a great pedagogical impact. He defined cinema as “the strongest weapon” because, through a strategic use of moving images, it had the power to “rule the gaze of the spectators”. After the advent of the sound cinema, from the thirties, the political intervention of the regime promote…
Atti e perversioni
2022
Il contributo intende tracciare una ricognizione generale della rappresentazione nel cinema italiano dal dopoguerra a oggi del rapporto che intercorre tra gli atti a sfondo erotico e le perversioni associate. Attraverso una serie di casi di studio, l'analisi cercherà di rendere conto delle principali direttrici che hanno segnato il cinema nazionale nella messa in scena del rapporto tra italiani e eros in una società in continua trasformazione
L’ordine del discorso autoriale. Immagini, pratiche, estetiche tra politica e biografia
2022
The paper aims to investigate the possibilities for the concept of “political author” as an effect of discourse to survive in contemporary cinema by analysing the case of Italian biopics of the new Millennium. After a proposal of definition of a political authoriality, the analyses of the films attempt to show how the articula- tion of such an authoriality in three different figures – the director, the actor, and the real model – and in subcategories defines a specific feature of biographical cinema, to eventually conclude with some remarks about the posthumous life of the authorial discourse after the “death of the author”, between politics and commitment.
La vita e l’azione. Il carattere moderno del biografico italiano
2022
Usually, fictional biography – both written or filmed – seems to trace back the distinctive aspect of a certain life only into the sphere of the activity characterizing it. In this sense, the biographical fiction considers an individual life as an exemplary moment to analyze to superimposition between oeuvre and operation, action and production, always linkable to an end. But what happens when the center of the narration is occupied by the absence of action, of any actions? Through Giorgio Agamben’s interpretation of Aristotle’s categories of oeuvre and action, this paper aims to define a paradigm of inoperosity in Italian biographical cinema to highlight its peculiar modern character and s…
Migrant Images and Imageries in Contemporary Italian Cinema”,
2019
This article aims to outline the three main threads that have marked Italian cinema in the adoption, comparison and modelling of migratory images and imageries, namely: a formed and forming gaze that transforms the multitude of life forms on the move into a horde of indistinct bodies; a humanitarian moral and a look that risk placing the diasporic subjects in an irredeemable position of subalternity and the construction and valorisation of migrant identities. Through these three threads, it is possible to reconstruct the visual history of migratory phenomena – both outwards to the Americas and inwards from North Africa –and highlight two opposing outcomes: on the one hand, the strategies of…
A Lexicon for Italian cinema: A conversation about history, theory and critique
2017
This article represents the outcome of a round table organized and conducted by Giacomo Tagliani about the Lessico del cinema Italiano/Lexicon of Italian Cinema (2014–2016). This research and editorial project comprises three volumes and 21 entries that address the history of Italian cinema through an original and challenging approach, namely to detect a list of conceptual clusters able to provide new perspectives over the heritage of Italian films. In this refined version, the authors who took part in that round table, that is, Roberto De Gaetano (also editor of the volumes), Massimiliano Coviello, Luca Venzi and Francesco Zucconi, outline their involvement in the research project, their s…
Pinocchio all'Inferno : Benigni lettore del XXX canto dell'Inferno
2020
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