ITAL 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Italian Unification, World War I
Document Summary
Most powerful mix of enrages (spectacle) & narrative verisimilitude film-history = multifaceted mutual related. Historical films appeared at the time of crisis of historicism (wwi/ modernism) widest number of sub genres in cinema. 1848-60 = risorgimento (national unification) = kingdom of italy (1861-1946), savory monarchy (piedmont) Risorgimento: military-led unification of 7 separate states. Italianization of lower classes based on operas. Rome as sole common" non contentious past. Colonial campaigns: 1896 defeat of adwa/ 1911-12 libya ~ ancient rome. The rebirth of tragedy (1897)= eternal return.
