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Italian historian

Chiara Ottaviano, (Ragusa, 1955) is an Italian historian, writer and film director.

Biography

After obtaining a degree in philosophy, at the Università di Catania, thanks to scholarships of Einaudi Foundation of Torino, has done research on social and cultural history in Italy, England and South Africa.

She taught from 1994 at Università di Torino and then History and sociology of mass communication, from 1996 to 2012, at the Politecnico di Torino

With Peppino Ortoleva founded the Cliomedia Officina, a company that operates in the cultural industry in order to combine historical research at the old and new media and directing it since 1985. In addition to several audiovisual history, Cliomedia produced the film documentary Terramatta, a story on the writer illiterate Vincenzo Rabito, presented at the 69th Venice International Film Festival and winner of the Nastro d'Argento for 2013 Best documentary.

Since 2000, she directed the Historical Archives of Telecom Italia.

In 2013, she founded the Archivio degli Iblei, along the lines of Archivio Diaristico Nazionale, and the latter associated in order to enable the digitization of diaries to make them available to scholars, historians and anthropologists.

She has written numerous essays on the history, curatorial essays and prefaces to other historians.

Essays

  • (in Italian) Chiara Ottaviano e Peppino Ortoleva, Cronologia della Storia d'Italia 1815–1990, Novara, DeAgostini, 1991, (new edition I giorni della storia d'Italia dal Risorgimento ad oggi, 1995)
  • (in Italian) C. Ottaviano e S. Scaramuzzi, Le famiglie e l'adozione dell'innovazione delle nuove tecnologie della comunicazione. I modelli di consumo e la tradizione degli studi, Venezia, 1997
  • (in Italian) Chiara Ottaviano, Mezzi per comunicare. Storia, società e affari dal telegrafo al modem, Torino, Paravia, 1997
  • (in Italian) Chiara Ottaviano (a cura di), Nuova Storia Universale. I racconti della storia, Torino, Garzanti, 2004–2005 (vol. VI-IX)
  • (in Italian) Chiara Ottaviano e G. Dematteis, L'Italia una e diversa, Milano, Touring Editore, 2010

Audiovisual

  • (in Italian) Terramatta, film documentary, Cliomedia Officina for Cinecittà Luce, 2012
  • (in Italian) La vita quotidiana degli italiani durante il fascismo, Gruner+Jahr/Mondadori, 3 vol. 2005/2007
  • (in Italian) Il Mezzogiorno e la storia d'Italia, Formez, 1992
  • (in Italian) Tute blu. Il Novecento operaio a Torino, Rai3, 1987
  • (in Italian) Torino laboratorio? A proposito degli ottant'anni dell'Unione Industriale, Rai3, 1986
  • (in Italian) Sapere la strada. Storia dell'emigrazione biellese, Rai3, 1986
  • (in Italian) Le trasformazioni del paesaggio italiano dal 1945 ad oggi, Loescher, 1996

References

  1. ^ "Chiara Ottaviano" (in Italian). Italiandoc. Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  2. "Giorno & notte". La Repubblica (in Italian). 4 December 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  3. "Nastro a Terramatta miglior documentario". La Repubblica (in Italian). 8 May 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
  4. "Archivio degli Iblei" (in Italian). Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  5. Ragusa, Raffaele (24 March 2013). "Le fonti e la memoria degli Iblei in un archivio" (PDF). La Sicilia (in Italian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  6. "Le memorie di Rabito ispirano la nascita dell'Archivio degli Iblei" (PDF). Gazzetta del Sud (in Italian). 23 March 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  7. Burderi, Marcella (6 August 2013). "Scampoli di storia nella rete". La Sicilia (in Italian). Ragusa. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  8. "Chiara Ottaviano" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
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