Educare alla purezza: modelli pedagogici e politica cinematografica nel cattolicesimo italiano
Between the late nineteenth century and the World War I, several factors pushed secular and Catholic educational agencies to theorize pedagogical lines specifically aimed at governing individual sexuality. In the Catholic sphere, the pedagogical proposal hinged on an almost complete, even termi...
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Between the late nineteenth century and the World War I, several factors pushed secular and Catholic educational agencies to theorize pedagogical lines specifically aimed at governing individual sexuality. In the Catholic sphere, the pedagogical proposal hinged on an almost complete, even terminological, removal of sex and sexuality: that dimension of human life was veiled and compressed within a bipolar linguistic horizon: at one extreme “purity”, at the other “instincts”, “passions” and “senses”. The construction phase of this pedagogical model – which in its various transformations was central at least until the 1960s – coincided in practice with the first diffusion of cinema, going on to profoundly influence the Catholic approach to the new medium: in the atlas of Catholic pedagogy, cinema was immediately catalogued among the most resolute opponents of the “angelic virtue” of “purity”. This contribution intends to propose a long-term analysis aimed at highlighting the evolution of the relationship between this pedagogical model and film policy in Catholicism, identifying the links between this relationship and the progressive sexualization of Italian cinema.
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| spelling | doaj.art-57b14dce92634a0d855273c5889cfe352024-02-11T18:43:30ZitaUniversità degli Studi di MilanoSchermi2532-24862022-07-0161110.54103/2532-2486/17414Educare alla purezza: modelli pedagogici e politica cinematografica nel cattolicesimo italianoGianluca Della Maggiore0Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Between the late nineteenth century and the World War I, several factors pushed secular and Catholic educational agencies to theorize pedagogical lines specifically aimed at governing individual sexuality. In the Catholic sphere, the pedagogical proposal hinged on an almost complete, even terminological, removal of sex and sexuality: that dimension of human life was veiled and compressed within a bipolar linguistic horizon: at one extreme “purity”, at the other “instincts”, “passions” and “senses”. The construction phase of this pedagogical model – which in its various transformations was central at least until the 1960s – coincided in practice with the first diffusion of cinema, going on to profoundly influence the Catholic approach to the new medium: in the atlas of Catholic pedagogy, cinema was immediately catalogued among the most resolute opponents of the “angelic virtue” of “purity”. This contribution intends to propose a long-term analysis aimed at highlighting the evolution of the relationship between this pedagogical model and film policy in Catholicism, identifying the links between this relationship and the progressive sexualization of Italian cinema. https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/schermi/article/view/17414MoralismSexualityCatholicismPedagogical models |
| spellingShingle | Gianluca Della Maggiore Educare alla purezza: modelli pedagogici e politica cinematografica nel cattolicesimo italiano Schermi Moralism Sexuality Catholicism Pedagogical models |
| title | Educare alla purezza: modelli pedagogici e politica cinematografica nel cattolicesimo italiano |
| title_full | Educare alla purezza: modelli pedagogici e politica cinematografica nel cattolicesimo italiano |
| title_fullStr | Educare alla purezza: modelli pedagogici e politica cinematografica nel cattolicesimo italiano |
| title_full_unstemmed | Educare alla purezza: modelli pedagogici e politica cinematografica nel cattolicesimo italiano |
| title_short | Educare alla purezza: modelli pedagogici e politica cinematografica nel cattolicesimo italiano |
| title_sort | educare alla purezza modelli pedagogici e politica cinematografica nel cattolicesimo italiano |
| topic | Moralism Sexuality Catholicism Pedagogical models |
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