Someone Writes About Cinema. The Reader's Columns on the Communist Magazines Vie Nuove, Il Calendario del Popolo and Rinascita from 1945 to 1960

Authors

  • Marco Zilioli Università di Bologna

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/9019

Keywords:

reader's columns, Vie Nuove, Il Calendario del Popolo, Rinascita, magazines, PCI

Abstract

In 1953 Aldo D’Alfonso edited the volume Mille domande a Vie Nuove. Mille risposte a Vie Nuove, the first collection of letters published in the Communist magazine Vie Nuove concerning the column dedicated to the correspondence, that so called Corrispondenza con i lettori. Taking this seminal work as a starting point, I will focus on studying the correspondence within the Communist periodicals in the second post-war period. In order to achieve this purpose in a more extensive and complete way, I will also examine the letters published in two other periodicals of the same period – Rinascita and Il Calendario del Popolo – taking into account those letters specifically dedicated – in various ways – to cinema. In particular, I will analyze the topics of these letters dealing with the relationship between cinema and readers in non-film specific cultural magazines, with the aim to provide a picture of how people experienced and perceived cinema and, analyzing the geographical origin and the age of the letters writers, to trace out a profile of the readers.

Published

2019-07-16

How to Cite

Zilioli, M. (2019). Someone Writes About Cinema. The Reader’s Columns on the Communist Magazines Vie Nuove, Il Calendario del Popolo and Rinascita from 1945 to 1960. Cinergie – Il Cinema E Le Altre Arti, 8(15), 15–29. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/9019

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