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Nato per la meccanica, cresciuto con le immagini
Between 1954 and 1980, the entrepreneur Luigi Danieli acquired filmmaking equipment to produce over a hundred films, attesting to his role as an amateur filmmaker. At the same time, however, how he organized his films, equipment, documents, and photo...
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Joseph Cornell collezionista di film
Joseph Cornell was not only a prolific collector of everyday ephemera but also a dedicated f ilm enthusiast whose work merged archival practice with artistic invention. In his cluttered basement studio, Cornell assembled materials that would later in...
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Claudio Bertieri
Claudio Bertieri’s archive and collections reflect the sedimentation of the critic’s daily work and research process, preserving objects and memorabilia simultaneously. As an intellectual, film critic, festivals and cultural promoter, comics and grap...
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To collect or not to collect
In the history of cinema, the collector is often described as a pioneer, a dubious term, but which nonetheless describes individuals whose passion and tenacity was often realised in the birth of cinema’s museums and archives. This paper intends to lo...
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Della “collezione cinematografica”
This essay investigates the conceptual and historical foundations of the film archive, focusing on the underlying intentions that have shaped its development. It traces the emergence of cinema preservation as a deliberate cultural and artistic practi...
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Prefazione
La proposta dei saggi presentati in questo numero monografico della “Valle dell’Eden” si inserisce nell’alveo delle ricerche e delle pubblicazioni sviluppate dal progetto PRIN 2022 “MOV.I.E. Musei del cinema e patrimonio audiovisivo: prospettive stor...
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Classical Styles
The aim of this article is to conceptualize the term “Classic Video Game” by employing the methodology used by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson to delineate the “Classical Hollywood Style.” To conduct the research, several video ga...
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Il professore che volteggia
The article tries to define the role played by Planet Hong Kong. Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment in David Bordwell’s extensive bibliography, starting with the attention he always paid to popular cinema, on the one hand, and Far Eastern ci...
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Lo spettatore pensa, lo spettatore fa
The article analyzes David Bordwell’s contribution to contemporary film studies, emphasizing the importance of the viewer’s active role in the perception and interpretation process of film. Starting in the 1980s, Bordwell shifted the focus from psych...
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Dedicato a David Bordwell
Questo dossier rende omaggio a David Bordwell (1947–2024), tra i massimi studiosi di cinema degli ultimi decenni. I tre saggi qui proposti – due dedicati direttamente alla sua opera e uno che applica le sue categorie teoriche allo studio del videogio...
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The Unbearable Cost of Development and Printing Plants
Result of the merger in 1973 between Spes and Tecnostampa, the two most important Italian film development and printing societies, Technospes constitutes a complex case study to re-investigate the deep crisis that subverted the cinematographic indust...
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Analog Board Games as Citizen Journalism
This word “newsgame” is a recent term in the academic field of game studies that refers to videogames or computer games on current events and issues. This is a new word and mode for a very old practice. There is a long tradition of analog games perfo...
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Pornography, the Everyday and Material Culture
This article challenges dominant portrayals of pornography as a harmful, abstract force disconnected from everyday life. Instead, it explores pornography as a diverse and material cultural practice embedded in people’s personal histories and daily ex...
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"Music Embodied in Life"
The community that formed around rock music in late 1960s and 1970s Leningrad was conscious of existing in conditions of material scarcity and being cut off from the flow of rock music from its dominant centres. Locally, music-making focused on live...
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Researching in circles
This essay examines the value of ‘critical intimacy’, return and repetition as perspectives and practices applied in historical research. In particular, it addresses history-writing that uses material culture as primary evidence, or which considers q...
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