The Media Library make available a rich collection of multimedia resources that can be required by the UCSC OPAC. It is specialized in seven key areas:

Cinema

The cinema section has been developed starting with the advent of the first films (especially the silent screen classics produced up to around 1930) to present-day movies. The library has acquired films made by the most representative Italian and foreign directors of each historical era, in addition to those films that have defined a particular cinematic genre. In terms of the more modern productions, the library has focused on purchasing films that have won critical acclaim or that have raised significant public interest.

Theatre

The theatre section has been developed around contemporary Italian and foreign productions, specifically those plays staged between the post-WW2 era and the present day. It has acquired a wide selection of American video recordings (published by Insight Media) to support the Drama Workshop. Material on the origins of the theatre, starting with Greek theatre, has been obtained from the Istituto Inda Sicilia, while the Piccolo Teatro of Milan has been the source for a number of the most well-known plays staged by eminent Italian directors. In addition, the Department has provided the Media Library with several performances of stage productions, which have been digitised to ensure their preservation and to make them available to a wider user base.
Ultimately, the National Theatre of London has provided the Media Library with a selection of original and not otherwise obtainable representations, featuring internationally renowned actors and directors.

Television

A series of resources are available to reconstruct the history of Italian television with a selection of programs for the most significant kinds: fiction, prose, variety, sport, light entertainment, information and quizzes. The collection takes a careful overlook to the contemporary international television scene (with the most significant television series) and also offers numerous Italian fiction films from the sixties and seventies. The teachers and the students of the Università Cattolica can also consult the rich multimedia archive of Rai Teche, with over 1,300,000 hours of television material.

Teche RAI

The teachers and students of the Università Cattolica can also consult the rich multimedia archive of Rai Teche: over 1,300,000 hours of television material, about 1,500,000 hours of radio productions, 45,000 photographs of Rai radio and television programs from the middle of the last century to the present day, 95,000 paper scripts and 75,000 writings on entertainment, the media and advertising. In addition to this, are available more than a thousand cinematographic and theatrical titles (that documents the prose in TV from the dawn until 2005) with in-depth information on titles and posters, in addition to the archive of chamber music and programs of the orchestras and choirs Rai " (which certifies the entire orchestral and choral concert activity of Rai in the symphonic seasons from 1956 to 1994). Finally the "Approdo letterario" (magazine of Italian and foreign literature, but also of history, figurative arts and cinema, founded in 1952 in Turin), the "Radiocorriere collection" (information on radio and television schedules) and 2,500 advertising posters from the Fondo Villani by illustrious twentieth-century artists such as Giambattista Basile, Marcello Dudovich, Nico Edel and Severo Pozzati.

Advertising

This section of the Media Library has been built up thanks to the wealth of material supplied by the University's lecturers, which it has duly digitized onto CD-ROM. The material covers the period 1997-2005 and comprises a variety of advertising from the 1980s and the "Caroselli" of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. The section continues to grow due to brand advertising materials, also of recent production, donated by the teaching staff or sent directly by the advertising agencies or companies themselves.

Video Art

The Media Library has acquired some of the most important videos made by Italian and foreign artists between the 1970s and the late 1990s as well as those on the history of art, which it has purchased directly from the Kunstmuseum of Basle. With the goal of developing research on the most recent video art productions released in Italy as well, the Video Art section has also started to approach directly contemporary Italian video artists with a view to acquiring their works firsthand.

Music

This section offers videos of the most famous performances, especially Mozart, Verdi, Vivaldi and Bach, and the large database Classical Music Library.

Documentary

The documentary genre ranges from the description of single figures in the field of politics, history, journalism, the story of historical facts and current, passing from the description of countries (Chile, China, Cambodia, India, etc.) to the account of individual events (flood in Florence in 1966, the sinking of the Andrea Doria, the birth of cinema, the Sixty-eight, etc.). One part is dedicated to the characterization of the figures artistic, literary, or the world of film and music (D'Annunzio, Pasolini, Visconti, Gaber, Mantegna, Pina Bausch). The documentary is having a big following and so, it has been included among the areas of Media Library, because it offers several ideas for interdisciplinary discussion and useful to most faculty.

 

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