UNIVERSITY

Assemblies of love. Cinema and the issue of sexuality in Italy (1948 – 1978)

TENDER ANNNOUNCEMENT
PRIN - MIUR
DURATION
5/2/17 – 5/2/20
LEADER
Università Statale Milano
REFEREE
Prof. Francesco Di Chiara
SUMMARY
The project, developed in partnership with the University of Milan, and the University of Messina and Link Campus University, serves two purposes. On one side it intends to study how sexuallity has found representation in the italian cinema in the period from 1948 (date of the first elections of the new Republic, who gave to the Christian Democracy the government of the country for over 40 years) to 1978 (date of the opening of the first pornographic cinemas in Italy). On the other side, the project investigates how a subject such as sexuality has been addressed in the italian cinema, but not only. The theme is therefore contextualized in the larger field of the relationship between cinematography and sexuality, which the project intends to recreate through an archive search and the examination of newspapers and magazines.