Quantità e qualità. {La} politica economico-culturale delle sale cinematografiche nel 1956

The article studies a moment of transition in Italian film culture: the year 1956. In that year,\r\nboth the number of cinemas and audience attendance stopped increasing. By analysing laws,\r\nparliamentary debates, court rulings, trade magazines and newspapers, the paper investigates\r\nthe central issues that prompted a new cinema law. As poor production was considered responsible\r\nfor the crisis in cinema, quality became the principle from which new policies were\r\nderived. For the exhibition sector, this meant the stricter regulation of cinema licenses and\r\nsupport for rural, occasional and youth theatres.