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Making caccia tragica : Giorgio Agliani, Giuseppe de Santis and the Italian resistance
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Nicoli, Marina (2020) Making caccia tragica : Giorgio Agliani, Giuseppe de Santis and the Italian resistance. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 40 (1). pp. 29-54. doi:10.1080/01439685.2020.1715595 ISSN 0143-9685.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2020.1715595
Abstract
Giorgio Agliani is almost unknown as an Italian film producer. A former commander in the Resistance, he was placed, soon after the war, in charge of cinema affairs within ANPI, the Italian national association of partisans. Agliani strongly believed that cinema was the perfect medium to build the collective memory of the Resistance. As the executive producer of Caccia Tragica (Tragic Hunt, 1947), directed by Giuseppe De Santis, he oversaw the making of a film which explored the tensions between men and women who had taken different sides in the recent conflict. The film won the prize for the best Italian movie at the Eighth Venice Film Festival in 1947. The article explores the tensions and difficulties that accompanied this attempt to make a film outside of conventional industry channels. The production was complicated because of the need to balance political concerns, organizational issues and artistic aspirations. Given the sensitive topic of Caccia Tragica, the Italian Communist Party put great pressure on ANPI leaders to ensure the story was told in a certain way. This impacted on Agliani, who was in charge of coordination, as well as financial and organizational matters, and also on De Santis, who demanded respect for his artistic decisions. Agliani’s personal archive is drawn on to reconstruct the entire story of the making of Caccia Tragica and to disentangle the various issues involved in the production. The article highlights the way political, cultural and economic issues were intertwined as well and sheds light on a ‘mode of production’ that was far from being a capitalistic one.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Film and Television Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television | ||||||
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
ISSN: | 0143-9685 | ||||||
Official Date: | 23 January 2020 | ||||||
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Volume: | 40 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 29-54 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/01439685.2020.1715595 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television on 23/01/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/ 10.1080/01439685.2020.1715595 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 November 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 July 2021 | ||||||
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