Memories of Cinema Going in 1950s Italy

Research insights from Oxford Brookes University’s Dr Daniela Treveri-Gennari on the practice of cinema-going in 1950s Italy has raised public awareness of the importance of autobiographical memories in the elderly as well as actively involved the elderly in reconstructing the history of an important time in Italian film industry. These benefits of the project were achieved through innovative British Academy funded research-led collaborations between Dr Daniela Treveri-Gennari (Oxford Brookes University) and colleagues at Exeter and Bristol Universities, working with Memoro (a non-profit initiative dedicated since 2007 to divulgate memories of people born before 1940), Rome City Council and the University of the Third Age. Dr Trevari-Gennari has joined with non-profit organisations to create a full map of post-war Italian cinema which includes: oral history of cinema-going; programming dataset; the first topographical charting of cinemas; and the first extensive reviews of popular press of the time

Memories in context: the social and economic function of cinema in 1950s Rome

During the 1950s, cinema in Italy blossomed, bringing film entertainment to Italians on an unprecedented scale. This study draws upon the testimony of 325 elderly Romans about their cinemagoing experiences during this period. Their memories are set in the particular context of the film programs that they (and fellow filmgoers) selected—information that is derived from daily newspapers and supplemented with trade listings of the most popular films screened in Rome. In producing a bottom-up account of cinemagoing, the paper contributes to the general debate about film culture in Italy in the postwar era

Cinema Heritage in Europe: Preserving and Sharing Culture by Engaging with Film Exhibition and Audiences

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Italian Studies beyond the Academy

Over the course of the last decade, considerable emphasis has been placed by public funding bodies on the need to demonstrate the impact of academic research across all subject areas. The article explores the significance of the impact agenda in Italian Studies, primarily in the UK (with reference to the census of impact case studies included in REF2014) but also in Italy and the USA. The article draws some conclusions on best practice, points to new ideas regarding dissemination and impact beyond the academic community, and identifies upcoming challenges which modern languages in general, and Italian Studies in particular, may be facing in the near future

Mapping Film Programming across Post-War Europe (1952)

Contains fulltext : 232561.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)This data paper and the data collection from which it emerges aim to present a fully harmonized data set originating in several research projects on post-war cinema programming. The paper will reflect on the collection and structure of this aggregated data set, that consists of titles of feature films screened for public viewing in cinemas in the cities Bari (Italy), Antwerp and Ghent (Belgium), Gothenburg (Sweden), Leicester (United Kingdom) and Rotterdam (Netherlands) for the year 1952. As comparisons of movie-going patterns between European countries are still rare, this paper offers a model for constructing a data set which can be replicated, scaled up and used to compare, contextualize, and eventually theorize practices of cinema-going across countries at a global level.15 p

Film programming Antwerp Bari Ghent Gothenburg Leicester Rotterdam 1952

This data collection presents a fully harmonized data set originating in several research projects on post-war cinema programming. The collection consists of data of feature films screened for public viewing in cinemas in the cities Bari (Italy), Antwerp and Ghent (Belgium), Gothenburg (Sweden), Leicester (United Kingdom) and Rotterdam (Netherlands) for the year 1952

Film programming Antwerp Bari Ghent Gothenburg Leicester Rotterdam 1952: Collaborative research initiative

This data collection presents a fully harmonized data set originating in several research projects on post-war cinema programming. The collection consists of data of feature films screened for public viewing in cinemas in the cities Bari (Italy), Antwerp and Ghent (Belgium), Gothenburg (Sweden), Leicester (United Kingdom) and Rotterdam (Netherlands) for the year 1952