Italian Association for Cinema History Research

AIRSC (Associazione Italiana per le Ricerche di Storia del Cinema) is a non-profit cultural association founded on 8 September 1964 on the initiative of Camillo Bassotto, Aldo Bernardini, Fausto Montesanti, Maria Adriana Prolo, Sergio Raffaelli, Nazzareno Taddei and Davide Turconi. It promotes historical and historiographical research on cinema, serves as an open space for members, scholars, archivists and enthusiasts, and fosters initiatives and collaborations with public and private film archives. Since 1981 it has published «Immagine. Note di storia del cinema», a journal classified in fascia A by ANVUR. It also promotes the study day "Storia e Storie" in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna.

AIRSC was founded on 8 September 1964 in the context of the Venice International Film Festival, on the initiative of Camillo Bassotto, Aldo Bernardini, Fausto Montesanti, Maria Adriana Prolo, Sergio Raffaelli, Nazzareno Taddei and Davide Turconi. It is a non-profit cultural association that promotes research and studies in cinema history, encouraging collective work on source retrieval and shared methodological criteria, facilitating the exchange of information and materials among members, publishing catalogues and repertoires, encouraging ties with similar foreign associations, and supporting initiatives aimed at scientific deepening of cinema history. Over the years AIRSC has contributed to defining methods and content of historical research in cinema and to the full appreciation of film as a historical and cultural asset. Its members have produced important research in history and historiography that has strengthened knowledge of Italian and world cinema, as well as work in the promotion, preservation and dissemination of silent and sound cinema, including the rescue of over two hundred rare silent films held in fiduciary deposit at the Cineteca Nazionale, whose catalogue has been published. Restored and duplicated by the association, these films are available in collaboration with public and private film archives for events and scholars. Since 1981 AIRSC has published «Immagine. Note di storia del cinema», a journal of in-depth study and new research, classified in fascia A by ANVUR. AIRSC also promotes "Storia e Storie", a study day organized in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna dedicated to new funds and new historical research.

A non-profit cultural association and open space for members, scholars, archivists and enthusiasts, promoting historical and historiographical research on cinema and collaborations with public and private film archives.

• «Immagine. Note di storia del cinema»

  A journal of in-depth study and new research, published by AIRSC since 1981 and classified in fascia A by ANVUR.

• Catalogues and repertoires

  AIRSC publishes catalogues and repertoires as part of its promotion of cinema history research.

• "Storia e Storie" study day

  A study day promoted by AIRSC in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna dedicated to new funds and new historical research.

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