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ABSTRACT PRIN 2017
Modes, Memories and Cultures
of Italian Film Production 1949-1976
The PRIN-funded “Modes, Memories and Cultures of Italian Film
Production 1949-1976” (MMC4976) project is a collaborative research
led by the Udine University (Principal Investigator: prof. Mariapia
Comand) and carried out by scholars from six universities (IULM in Milan,
Parma, Roma Tre, Cagliari and eCampus). It partners with institutions
in the field of film industry (AGIS Triveneto, ANICA) and preservation
(Archivio Storico Istituto Luce, Archivio Centrale di Stato, Biblioteca
“Luigi Chiarini” CSC Rome, Cineteca “Renzo Renzi”, Bologna).
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 The project’s aim is to detect the distinctive           discursive (self)representations of specific trade
socio-economic and cultural features that shaped          communities.
the Italian production system from the post-WWII            In line with this multi-sided approach, the
period to the mid-1970s. Such a wide time span is         research has considered different orders of
sub-divided in three, shorter periods: 1949-54 (for       historical source-materials: institutional papers
the increase in film production after “Andreotti’s        on ANICA’s activities preserved in the Oppido
law” to the first of Italian cinema’s cyclical            Lucano Film Archive were re-organized and
crises); 1958-63 (a still flourishing phase during        inventoried; datasets were extracted from the
national government’s political shift); 1971-76           cataloguing of paperworks on the co-production
(the last growing stage before the liberalization         of feature films preserved at the Archivio
                                                          Centrale di Stato in Rome; an extensive survey
of television frequencies). The methodological
                                                          on audiovisual sources preserved by public
framework intertwines a long-standing tradition
                                                          television (RAI) and non-fiction film archives
in political-economic studies on the modes of
                                                          (Luce, Aamood) was completed; the memoirs
film production with the more recent interest in
                                                          of several film industry laborers or their
professional communities’ cultural stances. The
                                                          heirs’ were captured on camera; finally, entire
first line of inquiry is aimed at reconstructing
                                                          collections of Italian trade press journals (Araldo
how the system worked on a macro-level, paying
                                                          dello spettacolo, Cinemundus, Cinespettacolo,
attention to the institutional features and to the
                                                          Giornale dello spettacolo, Cineproduzione,
corporate and political strategies; the second
                                                          Cinema d’oggi and Fiera del cinema among
one takes a close look at the professional                others) were digitized and made available for
figures employed in the organizational and craft          consultation as OCR-readable files from a digital
dimensions of filmmaking, enlightening the



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Catalogue.                                                     on the cultures of Italian film production in the
   To date, the MMC4976 project has promoted                   1960s (Giordana and Ugenti), on out-of standard
several dissemination activities, including an                 production practices (Zagarrio and Uva), on
on-line round table (Udine, March 2021) and two                the public representation of the film producer
conferences on the topics of “out-of-standard”                 (Farinotti, Gipponi and Grizzaffi) are expected by
(“fuori norma”) production practices (Rome,                    2024. An international collection on European
November 2022) and on the representation of the                film policies (Di Chiara ed.) is also in its working
film producer (Milan, April 2023). The research                phase.
group also curated two film retrospectives on                     Two major outcomes are to be released the
the “alternative and independent modes of                      end of the project: the first one is a documentary
production”, hosted by the Palladium (November-                short film (provisionally entitled Made in
December 2022, Rome) and the Sergio Amidei                     Italy) directed by Vito Zagarrio, featuring the
film festivals (July 2023).                                    witnesses gathered while interviewing (former)
   Reflections on sources, methods and                         professionals in film production and their
infrastructures were also shared in two special                heirs. The second one is an online Atlas of Film
issues of L’Avventura journal, devoted to                      Production: the data gathered from ANICA and
production archives (Comand and Venturini,                     ACS archives on the personalities (production
eds. 2021) and to the trade press (Di Chiara                   managers and inspectors, general managers)
and Dotto, eds., 2023). Marsilio’s book series                 and on the geographies (studios, locations) of
“Retroscena” was inaugurated precisely to host                 film production will be elaborated through data
the project’s outcomes: it already counts three                visualization and visual storytelling tools, to
monographic volumes, on Franco Cristaldi as a                  make historical knowledge of the Italian Film
creative producer (Corsi 2021), on the exchanges               Industry available to wider audiences of scholars
between the film and publishing industry (Zanco                and enthusiasts. For more details: https://
2022) and to trade organizations for sponsored                 cineproduzione.uniud.it.
film producers (Dotto 2022). Edited collections




REFERENCE LIST
Comand, Mariapia e Venturini, Simone, eds. 2021. “MMC 49’76. Modi, memorie e culture della produzione
cinematografica: strumenti, metodi e primi esiti”. In L’Avventura 7.
Corsi, Barbara. 2021. Un ettaro di cielo e 39 di terreno. Storia d’impresa di Franco Cristaldi. Venezia: Marsilio
Dotto, Simone. 2022. Gli specialisti. Storia, politica e istituzioni delle cinematografie specializzate in Italia.
Venezia: Marsilio.
Zanco, Martina. 2022. Visto si stampi. I romanzi-film in Italia tra gli anni cinquanta e gli anni settanta. Venezia:
Marsilio.



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