La Storia e la messa in scena. Il cinema storico tra simulacro e simulazione

Abstract

The essay aims to reflect on the relationship between simulation and cinema by reasoning about the historical genre. The aim is, on the one hand, to demonstrate how cinema works with history through a process of complex simulation of the event represented, and, on the other hand, how the very implementation of the staging of historical cinema implies the loss of actual history, replaced by its simulacrum. Two important biopics centred on the figure of Napoleon are examined, Abel Gance’s impressionist masterpiece and Ridley Scott’s spectacular Hollywood film

English title: History and Staging. Historical Cinema between Simulacrum and Simulation

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