Building democracy: woman and political participation in post-war Italian years

Authors

  • Carlota Coronado Ruiz Universidad Complutense de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/hp.37.11

Keywords:

Women, Italy, politics, cinema, newsreels.

Abstract

This article is to analyze not only the  content but the  form of the cinematographic newsreels related  with woman on the political stage, created in Italy between 1945 and 1953. The main objective is to identify the more popular feminine stereotypes frequently found in the political field in the first years of the Italian democracy. This allows us to witnesses how political participation of Italian women was represented at the movie theaters. Those women inherited an area of action to which traditionally were linked to, as cinematographic Italian newsreels, such as  Nuova  Luce and Settimana  Incom. These studies shed some light on the limited political participation of the collective, as well as their importance.

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Author Biography

Carlota Coronado Ruiz , Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Profesora Ayudante Doctora en el Departamento de Historia de la Comunicación Social de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Es autora de varios estudios sobre la historia del cine italiano y su público, la relación entre Historia y cine, así como sobre las representaciones de género a lo largo de la historia en el cine y la televisión.
Líneas de investigación: memoria histórica y medios de comunicación; historia y género; comunicación y género; historia del cine; historia de la televisión.
Principales publicaciones:
- “The Television of the Past. History, Memory and Representation on Franco´s Spain”, Catalan Journal of Communications & Cultural Studies, Vol, 1(4), pp. 43-56, 2012.
- “The regulation of television under Franco: from the history of entertainment to history as entertainment”. Historia Crítica, 2010 (40), 170-195.
- "Deportistas olvidadas. Mujer y deporte en los noticiarios cinematográficos italianos (1945-1953)". Historia y Comunicación Social, 2012, vol. 17, p. 181-193.

 

Published

2017-05-26

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STUDIES

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