Quando la disabilità è finita sullo schermo: filmografia e analisi del cinema italiano delle origini

Cinema is often used as a tool for education on disability issues, but it remains a powerful formof expression with its own codes and logics that in turn build an imaginary on disability. A filmographyof Italian cinema of the origins allows to fill a historiographical void and to identify thereasons, extra-filmic, for which disability has been brought to the screen. Understanding theways in which disability is brought to the screen and the social and cultural effects of these representationsis an opportunity to ask ourselves about our relationship with cinema and to graspthe evolutions and permanence that have marked these representations