A JOURNEY ACROSS THE HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY THROUGH THE MOVIES OF THE LAST TWENTY YEARS: FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR UNTIL TODAY

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to try to build an historical path, through this form of art - the cinema, and attempt to identify Italian films produced in the last twenty years, whose images could narrate the history of contemporary Italy, from the First World War to the present day. For the purposes of our research, more than 2,000 Italian movie sheets were analyzed over a period of twenty years from 1998 to 2017. The result of the research presents ten movies which according to the content is believed to fully meet the intention to be a valuable didactic tool in teaching Italian history and culture.