Vedere lontano: cinema ed educazione alla geografia nell’Italia degli anni Dieci

Silvio Alovisio; Luca Mazzei

doi:10.6092/issn.2280-9481/6818

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Silvio Alovisio Università di Torino
Silvio Alovisio is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Torino. He is extensively working on Italian silent cinema and early film theories. He is the author of some ten essays and books, among which The ‘Pastrone System’: Itala Film from the Origins to World War I, and L’occhio sensibile (The Responsive Eye) on cinema and psycho/physiology.
Luca Mazzei
Luca Mazzei is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Roma “Tor Vergata”. He currently works on early film theories, novels on film, and the role of cinema during the war against the Ottoman Empire (1911). He is the co-editor of Lucio d’Ambra e il cinema (co-ed. with A. Aprà) and Microteorie. Cinema muto italiano (co-ed. with L. Quaresima)

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/6818

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geography, national identity, territory

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This paper intends to address certain issues related to the role of scholastic geography within the intense debate on educational cinema in Italy in the 1910s and 1920s. If Italian educational geography is strategic in the construction of a national identity, what is the possible contribution of cinema to this project? Is such a project hegemonic in the reflection on educational projections or do other conceptions of environment, territory, travel and discovery of otherness exist? What features of innovative education are put forward for animated images, compared not only to cartographic images but also to the recent tradition represented by fixed projections, in which the function of the teacher turns out to be central?

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