{"id":107433,"date":"2026-03-31T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/?p=107433"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:42:27","slug":"cinema-storia-the-closing-credits-roll-on-cittadine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazionepirelli.org\/en\/education-en\/cinema-storia-the-closing-credits-roll-on-cittadine\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema &#038; Storia: The Closing Credits Roll on \u201cCittadine!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 edition of \u201c<strong>Cinema &amp; Storia<\/strong>\u201d has drawn to a close. This free training and professional development course for secondary school teachers, titled \u201c<strong>Cittadine! Pagine di storia delle donne, una storia di tutti\u201d \u2013 <\/strong>Pages of Women\u2019s History, a History for Everyone \u2013 brought together 260 teachers from across Italy this year. Curated by the <strong>Pirelli Foundation <\/strong>and <strong>Fondazione ISEC<\/strong>, and now in its fourteenth edition, the programme intersperses historical topics with film screenings. These are presented and commented on by <strong>Cineteca di Bologna<\/strong> in six online sessions, and participants are given a guided tour of the Pirelli Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>From the shifting boundary between private and public life to the stories of women entrepreneurs and key figures in twentieth-century publishing, to the hard-won achievement of women\u2019s suffrage and the experience of war and the Resistance, \u201cCittadine!\u201d has gone beyond themes of women\u2019s history for it has also shone a light on a vital chapter of Italy\u2019s national identity.<\/p>\n<p>Each session opened with \u201c<strong>Tales from the Archive<\/strong>,\u201d a brief reflection on the historical treasures safeguarded by the Pirelli Foundation. Through a selection of documents linked to this year\u2019s theme \u2013 photographs, company publications from <em>Pirelli <\/em>magazine to <em>Fatti e Notizie<\/em>, sketches, and advertising materials \u2013 a corporate narrative emerged that is, ultimately, also a story of women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrivate and Public Life: Domestic Work, Consumption, Technologies\u201d marked the opening stage of the course. It was led by the design historian <strong>Raimonda Riccini<\/strong>, who traced how, in the twentieth century, the home, the family, and women themselves were at the centre of a quiet yet profound revolution, with new rights and evolving customs. The session was accompanied by a screening of <strong><em>Nilde Iotti \u2013 Il tempo delle donne <\/em><\/strong>by Peter Marcias, a documentary that reconstructs the life of a woman who shattered taboos and helped drive the emancipation of Italian civil society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adriana Castagnoli<\/strong> \u2013 a historian, economist, and editorialist for <em>Il Sole 24 Ore<\/em> \u2013 retraced the evolution of female entrepreneurship in the modern era. She charted a path from the nineteenth century to the present day, highlighting moments of rupture and transformation in Italy and abroad. Among the figures discussed was <strong>Alice Guy<\/strong>, the focus of a <strong>selection of short films <\/strong>curated by the Cineteca di Bologna. A true pioneer of cinema \u2013 as a producer, entrepreneur, and director of <em>La F\u00e9e aux choux <\/em>(1896) \u2013 she made history by creating the first fictional film.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of women in the world of books and reading \u2013 in all the many professional roles they have occupied, often behind the scenes \u2013 was the main theme of the lecture by <strong>Irene Piazzoni<\/strong>, professor of Contemporary History at the University of Milan. Translators, collaborators, consultants, editors, publishers, and authors all came into focus. Among them was Katharine Graham, publisher of <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, whose story is told in the film <strong><em>The Post<\/em><\/strong>. The first woman to lead such a prestigious newspaper, in 1971 she chose to publish the vast national scandal surrounding the Vietnam War, risking both her company and her freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark date of 2 June 1946 was examined in a talk by <strong>Patrizia Gabrielli<\/strong>, professor of Contemporary History and Gender History. It marked the culmination of women\u2019s suffrage and the birth of a democratic vision of citizenship based on participation, responsibility, and the consolidation of political and social rights. The session concluded with a screening of <strong><em>Divorce Italian Style<\/em><\/strong>, a biting critique of honour killings \u2013 then tolerated under Italian law \u2013 starring Marcello Mastroianni, in a film that won the Oscar for Best Screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth session, led by <strong>Dianella Gagliani<\/strong>, associate professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bologna, examined how war \u2013 despite its immense suffering \u2013 also became a moment of awakening for many women, offering them a chance to claim new rights. Also the Italian Resistance emerged as a crucial step towards a renewed form of citizenship for women. The elegant black-and-white animation of <strong><em>Persepolis <\/em><\/strong>led the participants through the life of Marjane Satrapi: twenty years of history seen through the eyes of a young Iranian girl growing up, discovering her family\u2019s past, witnessing revolution and then a war, suffering and, ultimately, leaving her country.<\/p>\n<p>The participants were then invited to explore the profound transformations in industrial labour over time through a visit to the <strong>Pirelli Foundation<\/strong>. From the emergence of women in the late nineteenth century to the First World War \u2013 when the number of women in the workforce rose sharply \u2013 through to the post-war years, when factory work increasingly became a pathway to independence and emancipation for many young women.<\/p>\n<p>The course ended with a session entitled \u201c<strong>From Screen to History: Women in Cinema<\/strong>\u201d, led by\u00a0<strong>Anna Masecchia<\/strong>, associate professor of Cinema, Photography, Radio, Television and Digital Media at the University of Florence, and\u00a0<strong>Simone Fratini <\/strong>of Schermi e Lavagne, the educational department of the Cineteca di Bologna.\u00a0During this final stage, it was explained how, right from the outset, cinema played a vital role in shaping the social imagination around women, depicting the roles, tensions, and transformations across the twentieth century. 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