Giuseppe Scandurra, University of Ferrara
ABSTRACT
The object of this article is a network of intellectuals in Ferrara between the early 1950s and the late 1980s
which produced a series of visual works outside and inside the city – in painting, photography, cinema, video
art – difficult to classify. At the basis of the work of this generation of intellectuals there was a transdisciplinary
point of view where the separations between disciplines were less evident, also considering the absence of
humanistic faculties and the institution of the first anthropology chair in Ferrara only in the first decade of the
new millennium. The question at the center of this article is: before the birth of an anthropology chair, how
could urban scholars and artists produce visual hybrid works with a shared anthropological view?
KEYWORDS
Movies, anthropology, urban studies, Ferrara.
