Summary
Mario Ricciardi: The Century of Italian Film
A collection of papers from a gathering dedicated to the history of Italian film and the economic nature of the phenomenon of film production, organized in collaboration with the Academy of Sciences in Turin and the National Museum of Film.
In the history of the 20th century, a significant place belongs to film, a technical and expressive instrument that can directly and vividly show not only facts and events but also ideas, customs, fashion, individual and collective patterns of behavior. And in the history of Italy, film represented an artistic and cultural area of great importance, through the analysis of which that nation, "captured" and represented in its activities and habits, can be better understood and known.
Hence the decision of the Academy of Sciences in Turin and the National Film Museum to organize an international meeting to once again consider the history of Italian film and the impact it had on society and the environment. The book is a collection of papers from this gathering that are concentrated around two major themes:
- the history of Italian cinema, with a focus on its uniqueness and characteristics
- the economic nature of the phenomena that characterize film production: its origin in the form of industry, development through forms of high craftsmanship and, of course, the crisis. artistic, even theoretical, and those aspects that brought different novelties and ideas were not neglected either. The historical point of view is complemented by the contributions of sociologists, linguists, and semioticians, which made it possible to single out some typical contents of Italian film at the end of the meeting and examine its characteristic forms of expression and way of communication.
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