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Chiara Ottaviano

b. 1955

Italian philosopher, writer, and film director

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Born 1955. Chiara Ottaviano is an Italian essayist, teacher, philosophy historian and film producer.

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

Biography Ottaviano was born in Ragusa in 1955. After obtaining a degree in philosophy, at the University of Catania, thanks to scholarships of Einaudi Foundation of Turin, has done research on social and cultural history in Italy, England and South Africa.

She taught from 1994 at University of Turin and then History and sociology of mass communication, from 1996 to 2012, at the Polytechnic University of Turin

With Peppino Ortoleva founded the 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. 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 anthropologists.

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, DeAgostini, 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, Turin, Paravia, 1997 Chiara Ottaviano (a cura di), Nuova Storia Universale. I racconti della storia, Turin, Garzanti, 2004–2005 (vol. VI-IX) Chiara Ottaviano e G. Dematteis, L'Italia una e diversa, Milan, Touring Editore, 2010

Audiovisual Terramatta, film documentary, Cliomedia Officina for Cinecittà Luce, 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

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Born
1955, Ragusa
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Education
University of Catania
Employers
University of Turin

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Italian philosopher, writer, and film director

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Chiara Ottaviano was born in 1955 in Ragusa.

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Chiara Ottaviano is an essayist, teacher, philosophy historian and film producer.

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Chiara Ottaviano is Italian.

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· Wikidata: Q14545664

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