The essay focuses on the international framework of policies that led pope Pius XI to the promulgation of the Vigilanti cura, encyclical on motion pictures (1936). The outlines of Vatican geopolitics on cinema can be traced drawing on documents preserved at the Vatican Secret Archives concerning: the campaigns against Soviet cinema and Hollywood, Vatican relations with the Office Catholique International du Cinéma and the International Educational Cinematographic Institute. Such complex web resulted in a great survey on motion pictures (1935) that involved Holy See representatives around the world.
Il saggio ricostruisce il quadro internazionale delle politiche che condussero papa Pio XI alla promulgazione dell’enciclica sul cinema Vigilanti cura (1936). Dai documenti dell’Archivio Segreto Vaticano emergono i lineamenti della geopolitica cinematografica vaticana: le campagne contro il cinema sovietico e hollywoodiano, i rapporti con l’Office Catholique International du Cinéma e con l’Istituto internazionale del cinema educativo. Un complesso intreccio culminato con una grande inchiesta sul cinema (1935) che coinvolse le rappresentanze pontificie in tutto il mondo.
Universalismo cinematografico : l'inchiesta della Santa Sede sul cinema del 1935
Gianluca della Maggiore
2017
Abstract
The essay focuses on the international framework of policies that led pope Pius XI to the promulgation of the Vigilanti cura, encyclical on motion pictures (1936). The outlines of Vatican geopolitics on cinema can be traced drawing on documents preserved at the Vatican Secret Archives concerning: the campaigns against Soviet cinema and Hollywood, Vatican relations with the Office Catholique International du Cinéma and the International Educational Cinematographic Institute. Such complex web resulted in a great survey on motion pictures (1935) that involved Holy See representatives around the world.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
