Il cinema in missione. La pratica cinematografica dei missionari italiani lungo il XX secolo tra apostolato e antropologia

The thesis reconstructs the cinema’s experience of Italian missionaries during the XX century in a historical-pragmatic key. Italian missionaries, who started producing movies around the Twenties, have used cinema as a helpful instrument for religious propaganda. They have considered the rules of the Catholic Church, the political and social context and the audience’s expectations. Each chapter (1-4) analyses the phenomenon inside the context constituted by the Italian colonial experiences, the relationship between Catholic Church and images during the Evangelization, the history of cinema and the history of missions. A specific chapter (chapter 5) is dedicated to the archives of missionary’s cinema and to the value to be assigned to this film production (in terms of social memory and archive’s memory). At the end of the first part, the thesis presents a proposal about the relationship between missionary’s cinema and visual anthropology. The second part of the thesis includes the film cards of the missionary’s movies preserved in Italy: 339 cards of Italian movies and 149 cards of foreign movies placed in different archives and bureaus.

Grantor dc:publisher

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Year dc:date

2008

Author dc:creator

• Piredda, Maria Francesca <1977>

Contributors dc:contributor

• Manzoli, Giacomo

• L-ART/06 Cinema, fotografia e televisione

Statement dc:rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

Language dc:language

it

Identifier

urn:nbn:it:unibo-1088
Piredda, Maria Francesca (2008) Il cinema in missione. La pratica cinematografica dei missionari italiani lungo il XX secolo tra apostolato e antropologia, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Studi teatrali e cinematografici <https://amsdottorato.unibo.it/view/dottorati/DOT319/>, 20 Ciclo.

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