Immagini dal passato. La divulgazione della storia nella neotelevisione italiana: immaginari, format e funzioni mediali

Copyright © 2017 (Fabio Tarzia). Pubblicato con licenza Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Disponibile su mediascapesjournal.it ISSN: 2282-2542 Mediascapes journal 8/2017 Immagini dal passato. La divulgazione della storia nella neotelevisione italiana: immaginari, format e funzioni mediali * Fabio Tarzia ** Sapienza Università di Roma In the death of function of the institutions involved in the building of a shared memory (school, academy, etc.), in the fragmentation of the sense of the past and its individualization, it is possible that the mass media and especially the TV have regained a strategic importance? The essay here tries to answer this question, limiting its attention to the Italian landscape and the genre of the divulgation of history in generalist television. The analysis starts with a quick reconstruction-mapping of the complex set of new television documentaries, and continues with a description of the current situation, identifying in the Rai's overall project an interesting attempt to combine, following the traces of a Established tradition, entertainment and educational purposes, according to a probably unique model in Europe and the Western world.