Architetture dell'immaginario. La casa nel cinema italiano degli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta

The migration of cultural and visual forms from a medium to another entails the consideration of media environment as an experimental one. Since the house can be thought over as a media environment – being either constructed in the media or infiltrated by the media – it may be also considered as a space of negotiation structured by images. In this sense the domestic visual environment becomes physical, psychological and imaginary at the same time, and its analysis exacts a specific attention to the processes of re-appropriation, re-mediation and re-location underneath. Therefore the main aim of this essay is to find out, through an interdisciplinary approach of analysis, the cultural patterns on which the visual culture of domesticity was built in Italy during the Fifties and Sixties. In fact, mapping the evolution of all the symbolic patterns allows us to detect the mutation of cultural forms concerning domesticity, including images in the field of structuring element of space. Besides developing the analogies between architectonic and cinematographic experiences of domesticity, the study inquires into the joined influence of architecture and cinema on the popular imaginary of it, basing itself on Le Corbusier’s and Ejzenštein’s remarks about movement and perception.