Article:
Microphysics of a rationalist utopia – Ruins, town plans, and the avant-garde documentary

Simple item page
dc.creatorMariani, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-26T11:48:26Z
dc.date.available2018-09-26T11:48:26Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractIn 1934, Giuseppe Terragni, the father of Italian architectural Rationalism, planned and directed the renovation work of the city of Como. Retracing this utopian project ‐ definitively withdrawn after some years and never completed ‐ the article points out the singular relationship between the Terragni Studio and the young comrades of the University Fascist Film Club of Como: the ‘Cineguf’. The Cineguf were a complex network of film clubs spread all over the country; they were fostered and equipped by the National Fascist Party in order to create a new generation of filmmakers for the new fascist cinema. In these groups the avant-garde culture of the cine-clubs and the official aesthetic debates about a genuine realism found an original and controversial solution. The focus here is on the short film realised by the Cineguf which was commissioned by the Terragni Studio and financed by the Urban Office of the Municipality: Renovation of the Quarter ‘La Cortesella’. I proceed by taking into account different degrees of conceptualisation of the ‘trace’, presenting a reflection on the complexity of the historiographical operation, including the ways in which the historical traces of these filmmakers’ experience of modernity are identifiable in the text.en
dc.identifier.doi10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.MARI
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15142
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/microphysics-rationalist-utopia-ruins-town-plans-avant-garde-documentary/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3325
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectFaschismusde
dc.subjectAmateurde
dc.subjectFilmde
dc.subjectAmateurfilmde
dc.subjectAmateurde
dc.subjectAvantgardede
dc.subjectDokumentarfilmde
dc.subjectExperimentalfilmde
dc.subjectRestaurierungde
dc.subjectModerne Architekturde
dc.subjectModernede
dc.subjectfascist cinemaen
dc.subjectamateur cinemaen
dc.subjectavant-gardeen
dc.subjectcinemaen
dc.subjectdocumentaryen
dc.subjectexperimental cinemaen
dc.subjectfilmen
dc.subjectfilm restorationen
dc.subjectmodern architectureen
dc.subjectmodernismen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personWalter Benjamin
dc.titleMicrophysics of a rationalist utopia – Ruins, town plans, and the avant-garde documentaryen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMariani, Andrea (2014): Microphysics of a rationalist utopia – Ruins, town plans, and the avant-garde documentary. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 3 (1), 219–243. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.MARI.
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T05:23:33
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2014.1.MARI
local.source.epage243
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage219
local.source.volume3
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118509039
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61078

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
NECSUS_3_1_2014_219-243_Mariani_Microphysics_.pdf
Size:
1.48 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Original PDF with additional cover page.
Download

Collections

2014/1 – #Traces