L'autunno (caldo) non è una stagione televisiva

The article analyzes representations of 1969 - the so-called "Autunno caldo - in the Italian television, from 1970 to 2000. More specifically, the focus of the survey are "sceneggiati" and Tv films, compared with movies where workers are the main characters (like La classe operaia va in paradiso, for example). The aim of the article is to understand how Italian television contributes to define the representation of industrial workers in the collective imagination. For this reason the main sources are Tv fictions, that have a bardic function unlike news or journalistic programs