La grande guerra sul grande schermo

Giuseppe Fidotta

doi:10.14591/aniki.v2n1.144

Giuseppe Fidotta Università degli Studi di Udine, Dipartimento di Storia e Tutela dei Beni Culturali, 33100, Udine, Italy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v2n1.144

Keywords: Exhibition, First World War, Installation, Museum

Abstract

The exhibition “La grande guerra sul grande schermo” hosted at Le Gallerie in Trento constitutes a remarkable attempt to evaluate the functions of cinema as a means of representing the war. The review focuses on experience and memory as the means of analysing the relation between WWI and cinema.

Author Biography

Giuseppe Fidotta, Università degli Studi di Udine, Dipartimento di Storia e Tutela dei Beni Culturali, 33100, Udine, Italy

Giuseppe Fidotta is Ph.D. candidate at the University of Udine, Italy. His research explores the interplay between landscape, technology and medium specificity in fascist imperial documentary. He is the co-editor of Whose Right? Media, Authorship and Intellectual Property in the Digital Era and At the Borders of (Film) History. Temporality, Archaeology, Theories, author of essays appeared in Italian and international journals, and editor of the academic journal Cinergie. Il cinema e le altre arti.

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