Social Space in Italian Film

Films can (re)construct social spaces with great accuracy. For this reason, the use of analytical tools borrowed from film studies can provide an innovative methodological framework for the study of urban space.

From post-war neorealism to the most recent works by contemporary directors, Italian cinema has developed artistic strategies of the mise-en-scène of an urban space into which social constellations and their respective transformations are inscribed. This field of research is to be fruitfully explored through questions developed by the various disciplines involved in the study of social space. The analysis of film can provide fundamental insights into the construction and representation of social space at a given historical moment.