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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unibo.it/oai:amsdottorato.cib.unibo.it:1120 |
| Date | 02 July 2008 |
| Creators | Piredda, Maria Francesca <1977> |
| Contributors | Manzoli, Giacomo |
| Publisher | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna |
| Source Sets | Università di Bologna |
| Language | Italian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Thesis, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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