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


Biography

After obtaining a degree in philosophy, at the
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, 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
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, 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 ''Terramatta: The Italian Twentieth Century of Vincenzo Rabito Sicilian illiterate'' ( it, Terramatta: Il Novecento italiano di Vincenzo Rabito analfabeta siciliano) is a 2012 documentary directed by Costanza Quatriglio, based on the memoir ''Ter ...
, 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
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s. She has written numerous essays on the history, curatorial essays and prefaces to other historians.


Essays

* Chiara Ottaviano e Peppino Ortoleva, ''Cronologia della Storia d'Italia 1815–1990'', Novara,
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, 1991, (new edition ''I giorni della storia d'Italia dal Risorgimento ad oggi'', 1995) * 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 * Chiara Ottaviano, ''Mezzi per comunicare. Storia, società e affari dal telegrafo al modem'', Torino, Paravia, 1997 * Chiara Ottaviano (a cura di), ''Nuova Storia Universale. I racconti della storia'', Torino, Garzanti, 2004–2005 (vol. VI-IX) * Chiara Ottaviano e G. Dematteis, ''L'Italia una e diversa'',
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, Touring Editore, 2010


Audiovisual

* ''
Terramatta ''Terramatta: The Italian Twentieth Century of Vincenzo Rabito Sicilian illiterate'' ( it, Terramatta: Il Novecento italiano di Vincenzo Rabito analfabeta siciliano) is a 2012 documentary directed by Costanza Quatriglio, based on the memoir ''Ter ...
'', film documentary, Cliomedia Officina for
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, 2012 * ''La vita quotidiana degli italiani durante il fascismo'', Gruner+Jahr/Mondadori, 3 vol. 2005/2007 * ''Il Mezzogiorno e la storia d'Italia'', Formez, 1992 * ''Tute blu. Il Novecento operaio a Torino'', Rai3, 1987 * ''Torino laboratorio? A proposito degli ottant'anni dell'Unione Industriale'', Rai3, 1986 * ''Sapere la strada. Storia dell'emigrazione biellese'', Rai3, 1986 * ''Le trasformazioni del paesaggio italiano dal 1945 ad oggi'', Loescher, 1996


References

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