Catholicism and Cinema

This volume investigates the ways in which the Catholic Church used cinema as a space for action within the complex dynamics of modern mass society. Within this context it analyses the Catholic Churchs Tilm policy illuminating for the Tirst time, by means of a systematic analysis, a vast body of documents preserved at the Vatican Secret Archives and at numerous Italian Catholic archives some of them indexed and opened to scholars. Amongst them we Tind Archivio Storico dellIstituto Luigi Sturzo [Historical Archive of the Luigi Sturzo Institute] and the Archivio dellIstituto per la storia dellAzione Cattolica e del Movimento Cattolico in Italia Paolo VI [Archive of the Institute for the History of Catholic Action and the Catholic Movement in Italy Paul VI]; other only partially indexed like the Nazareno Taddei Archive or faced with the risk of closure, like the Associazione Cattolica Esercenti Cinema [Catholic Exhibitors Association] Archive.