Cinema and musical memory. Songs and the 1968 movement on the contemporary big screen

Journal title STORIA E PROBLEMI CONTEMPORANEI
Author/s Emanuele Sparacino
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2014/66
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 69-88 File size 122 KB
DOI 10.3280/SPC2014-066004
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The aim of the article is to investigate the interpretation given by four contemporary movies about the decade from 1968 to 1978 through the analysis of their soundtracks. The movies are The dreamers (2003, by Bertolucci), La meglio gioventù (2003, by Giordana), Après Mai (2012, by Assayas) and Il grande sogno (2009, by Placido). The analysis concerns specific scenes and their background music. It shows what has remained in the collective imagination of the so-called "Sessantotto". Therefore, the movies propose only the more "romantic" aspects of "Sessantotto", a season where it was still possible to imagine one owns future and society’s, barely hinting at terrorism and disenchantment that shortly would have followed.

Emanuele Sparacino, Cinema e memoria sonora. Canzoni e Sessantotto nel cinema contemporaneo in "STORIA E PROBLEMI CONTEMPORANEI" 66/2014, pp 69-88, DOI: 10.3280/SPC2014-066004