By Catherine O’Rawe In January 1946 the Italian film magazine Star, in a response to a reader’s request for information on how to contact the country’s major studio, Cinecittà, advised him: It’s pointless to address your letter to Cinecittà. The celluloid metropolis has temporarily concluded its proud career with an act of true public usefulness: hostingContinue reading “A State of ‘Agreeable Disorder’: Temporary Film Studios in Post-war Italy”
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Making Italian cinema great again (and again): Founding ceremonies and inaugurations of Italy’s film studios (and their politics)
By Carla Mereu Keating ‘An unforgettable day’: The inauguration of the Cines-Pittaluga studios Showcasing state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology, the highly mediated re-opening of the historical Roman studios Cines by entrepreneur Stefano Pittaluga inaugurates not only the beginning of Italy’s sound film production but also a long-lasting entanglement between the film and media industries and theContinue reading “Making Italian cinema great again (and again): Founding ceremonies and inaugurations of Italy’s film studios (and their politics)”
Studiotec: Film Studios: Infrastructure, Culture, Innovation in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1930-60 