Siti Reali. La provincia di Caserta nella cinematografia italiana

A paradox marks the cinematographic presence of Caserta and its Province. On the one hand, the famous Royal Palace, chosen as a set for dozens of Italian and international films from the 1930s to the present day, is actually a closed place, not linked to the territory and, moreover, used largely to represent and evoke other spaces of power. On the other hand, in the course of the twentieth century, the presence on the big screen of the Caserta Province was sporadic. Only at the beginning of the new millennium did this territory become the privileged setting for stories with a strong realism and aimed at telling facts and episodes largely related to the crime news. This intervention therefore aims to focus on the film production of the last fifteen years in order to identify, together with the aspects that characterize it, the places most used and thus offer a critical reading of the interpretations suggested by the films.