Description
This volume investigates the ways in which the Catholic Church used cinema as a space for action within the complex dynamics of modern mass society. Within this context it analyses the Catholic Church's Tilm policy illuminating for the Tirst time, by means of a systematic analysis, a vast body of documents preserved at the Vatican Secret Archives and at numerous Italian Catholic archives - some of them indexed and opened to scholars. Amongst them we Tind Archivio Storico dell'Istituto Luigi Sturzo [Historical Archive of the Luigi Sturzo Institute] and the Archivio dell'Istituto per la storia dell'Azione Cattolica e del Movimento Cattolico in Italia Paolo VI [Archive of the Institute for the History of Catholic Action and the Catholic Movement in Italy Paul VI]; other only partially indexed like the Nazareno Taddei Archive or faced with the risk of closure, like the Associazione Cattolica Esercenti Cinema [Catholic Exhibitors' Association] Archive.
About the Author
Tomaso Subini is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of Milan. He has been the Principal Investigator of a "National Interest Research Project" (PRIN-2012) on the topics of this book. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the "National Interest Research Project" (PRIN-2015) Love Meetings. Cinema and Sexuality in Italy (1948-1978). Gianluca della Maggiore is Postdoc Research Fellow in Contemporary History at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. In 2015 he received his PhD in Historical Studies with a thesis on the Catholic Church's Tilm policy during Fascism.
Book Information
ISBN 9788869770760
Author Tomaso Subini
Format Paperback
Page Count 244
Imprint Mimesis International
Publisher Mimesis International
Series Italian Frame
About the Author
Tomaso Subini is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of Milan. He has been the Principal Investigator of a "National Interest Research Project" (PRIN-2012) on the topics of this book. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the "National Interest Research Project" (PRIN-2015) Love Meetings. Cinema and Sexuality in Italy (1948-1978). Gianluca della Maggiore is Postdoc Research Fellow in Contemporary History at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. In 2015 he received his PhD in Historical Studies with a thesis on the Catholic Church's Tilm policy during Fascism.
Book Information
ISBN 9788869770760
Author Tomaso Subini
Format Paperback
Page Count 244
Imprint Mimesis International
Publisher Mimesis International
Series Italian Frame
