The race to innovate, which has enabled great advances in science, cultural heritage, and other disciplines, has often been the reason behind the abandonment of practices and places that over time have shaped the history of places, traditions, and customs. The loss of the storytelling even of specific parts of our past constitutes the impoverishment and obfuscation of the identity of places that we all identify with. The digital revolution in cinema has involved not only representation in the broad sense of the term, but also the destiny of part of the dedicated historical architectural heritage. The oblivion that encompasses most of the cinemas designed in the 20th century in Catania and its province finds origin in the new sensibility and new styles of expression. The movie theatre, which in the past represented the place of social meeting and exchange, is now an invisible entity. Catania's architecture, abandoned or converted to other uses (shops, restaurants), is now a heritage to be safeguarded and designated for appropriate uses.
La corsa all'innovazione, che ha permesso grandi progressi nella scienza, nei beni culturali e in altre discipline, è stata spesso la causa dell'abbandono di pratiche e luoghi che nel tempo hanno fatto la storia di luoghi, tradizioni e costumi. La perdita della narrazione anche di parti specifiche del nostro passato costituisce un impoverimento e un offuscamento dell'identità dei luoghi in cui tutti ci identifichiamo. La rivoluzione digitale del cinema ha coinvolto non solo la rappresentazione in senso lato, ma anche il destino di parte del patrimonio storico architettonico dedicato. L'oblio che avvolge la maggior parte delle sale cinematografiche progettate nel XX secolo a Catania e provincia trova origine nella nuova sensibilità e nei nuovi stili espressivi. La sala cinematografica, che in passato rappresentava il luogo di incontro e scambio sociale, è oggi un'entità invisibile. L'architettura catanese, abbandonata o convertita ad altri usi (negozi, ristoranti), è oggi un patrimonio da salvaguardare e destinare a usi appropriati.
20th century cinematographs in Catania: memory and oblivion of a heritage to be safeguarded
Graziana D'Agostino
;Mariateresa Galizia
2024-01-01
Abstract
The race to innovate, which has enabled great advances in science, cultural heritage, and other disciplines, has often been the reason behind the abandonment of practices and places that over time have shaped the history of places, traditions, and customs. The loss of the storytelling even of specific parts of our past constitutes the impoverishment and obfuscation of the identity of places that we all identify with. The digital revolution in cinema has involved not only representation in the broad sense of the term, but also the destiny of part of the dedicated historical architectural heritage. The oblivion that encompasses most of the cinemas designed in the 20th century in Catania and its province finds origin in the new sensibility and new styles of expression. The movie theatre, which in the past represented the place of social meeting and exchange, is now an invisible entity. Catania's architecture, abandoned or converted to other uses (shops, restaurants), is now a heritage to be safeguarded and designated for appropriate uses.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.