Università Roma Tre

Particularly focusing on the Fifteens and the Sixties, the course analyses Italian ethnographic documentary cinema and its most relevant directors. The second part of the class centers upon Cecilia Mangini’s films, also investigating her relationship with documentary and fiction cinema of that period and, more generally, the cultural production and the socio-cultural context of those years.

Required bibliography:
– Mattia Cinquegrani, Il cinema di Cecilia Mangini, Venezia, Marsilio, 2024.
– Selection of essays edited by the teacher