Educare alla purezza: modelli pedagogici e politica cinematografica nel cattolicesimo italiano

Between the late nineteenth century and World War I, several factors pushed secular Catholic educational agencies to theorize pedagogical lines specifically aimed at governing individual sexuality. In sphere, proposal hinged on an almost complete, even terminological, removal of sex sexuality: that dimension human life was veiled compressed within a bipolar linguistic horizon: one extreme “purity”, other “instincts”, “passions” “senses”. The construction phase this model – which in its various transformations central least until 1960s coincided practice with first diffusion cinema, going profoundly influence approach new medium: atlas pedagogy, cinema immediately catalogued among most resolute opponents “angelic virtue” “purity”. This contribution intends propose long-term analysis highlighting evolution relationship between film policy Catholicism, identifying links progressive sexualization Italian cinema.