Rome, the city of cinema, risks no longer being a city for cinema, as it suffers an unhindered escalation of movie theatre closings and unregulated transformations that have led to the disappearance of over 100 movie theatres in the past 15 years alone. The book by Silvano Curcio titled “Fantasmi Urbani – La memoria dei cinema di Roma” – promoted by Titanus on the 120th anniversary of its foundation and published by Palombo Editore – is dedicated to the story of the “urban ghosts” in Rome, with the intent to retrieve and share the memory of them and achieve two further objectives: to raise awareness and expose the valuable collective heritage that has been lost or compromised, and at the same time to send out a final SOS for the preservation of the surviving movie theatres, laying out policy indications to achieve this end.
INTRODUCED BY
Vania Colasanti
WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF
Silvano Curcio
Masolino D’Amico
Gina De Bellis
Guido Lombardo
Enrico Vanzina
Massimo Veneziano
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