Garibaldi e l’epopea garibaldina
nel cinema muto italiano. Dalle origini
alla I guerra mondiale
English
Title
Garibaldi and the Representation of Garibaldi
in italian silent Cinema: from its Beginning
to the World War One
Author(s)
Lasi,
Giovanni
Journal
Storicamente
Volume Number
7-2011
Article Number
16
Published
2011-03-04
Abstract
The
first film producted by an italian studio
was "La presa di Roma - 20 settembre
1870" (Albertini & Santoni, 1905)
and the Italian Risorgimento will continue
to be one of the most favoured subjects
of italian cinematography. In the period
of silent screen films, between 1905 and
1927, aproximately 60 films were produced
in Italy concerning the Risorgimento, of
which at least 30 were regarding Garibaldi
and his epic actions. Even in the cinema,
Garibaldi continued to be the most representative
and emblematic figure of the Risorgimento,
and his popularity is often exploited in
misleading ways by the figures of power
during the first decades of the twentieth
century to ideologize the figure of Garibaldi,
still through cinema.
Lasi,
Giovanni, Garibaldi e l’epopea garibaldina
nel cinema muto italiano Dalle origini alla
I guerra mondiale, «Storicamente»,
art. 16, 7(2011), http://www.storicamente.org/05_studi_ricerche/lasi_garibaldi_film.htm
