MOTORE, CIAK, STORIA!
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Edited by Antonino BLANDO (Università di Palermo), Mariangela PALMIERI (Università di Salerno)

Motore, ciak, storia! is a section of the journal “Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea”. The section publishes contributions investigating the relationship between history and audiovisual materials and archives.
On the one hand, over the last decades, historians have explored the enriching and complex dialogue between audiovisual media and historical reconstructions. On the other hand, the increase in broadcasts of historic events and the growing presence of historical debates and dissemination on television, press, and social media demonstrates both the interest for the subject, and a rising demand of historical information by the public at large. Movies and tv series, television programmes, YouTube channels, podcasts and video-lectures – disseminated also via social media, – have proposed a story-telling-based, and an engaging way, to deliver historical content and have proved themselves to be effective.
The use of audiovisual materials allow historians to enrich the possible array of primary and secondary sources. However, audiovisual sources are also active agents able to affect the perception of specific events, collective imaginaries, public memories, and group identity. Also from pedagogical and diffusion perspectives, audiovisual media are gaining momentum.
We are interested in articles aiming to propose an academic contribution in developing the research debate on the subjects mentioned above.
Articles may be about (however, the list is not exhaustive):

• theoretical, conceptual, and methodological reflections on audiovisual materials as historic sources, dissemination media, pedagogical tools in history courses;
• popularising historical knowledge via entertainment products;
• studies on consumption of history-themed audiovisual products and their impact on the audience;
• comparison between storytelling and history narrating;
• audiovisual materials in public and digital history;
• audiovisual archives and upcycling of audiovisual documents in media.

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Interested authors are required to submit an abstract (max 1.500 characters) of the proposed work and a short biographical note by 22 December 2024 to the following email address redazione.diacronie[at]studi storici.com Authors will be informed about the outcome of the selection process by 8 January 2025. Researchers having received notification of acceptance will be invited to submit their original and previously unpublished research articles. Full-length proposals should be between 35.000 and 50.000 characters (spaces, footnotes, and references included) and can be written in Italian, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese (contributions in Portuguese will be translated into Italian by the board).

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