Abstract
This master’s thesis examines the triangular relationship between music, film, andpolitics. This means that it explores the interconnections between the Symphony 8th
September – Resistenza by Dr. med. Alfred Huber, a film created by me, Johannes Huber BSc, and the theme of Fascism in Italy. This intermedial project serves as a guiding
framework through which the films of Neorealism are analyzed. Based on the narrative foundations of Neorealism—its focus on empathy, everyday life, and moral questions—the thesis investigates how this cinematic epoch shaped later works. It demonstrates how our intermedial approach, which seeks to treat film and music as equal
components of a unified artwork, enables new forms of audiovisual narration while simultaneously drawing upon neorealist traditions.
In the analysis, Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia plays a crucial role. In particular,
the Purgatorio and its treatment of the seven deadly sins provide perspectives through
which connections between Neorealism and the intermedial film project are established.
The deadly sins serve as an anthropological model for analyzing political dynamics. In
parallel, the thesis reflects on the artistic creation process of the project, which emerged
from a multitude of contemporary political and social crises and motivated the decision
to draw a comparison between Italian Fascism and the Russian war of aggression.
The thesis concludes that the intermedial project 8th September – Resistenza does
not represent a departure from established traditions; rather, it constitutes a further
development of existing narrative forms in cinematic terms and, simultaneously, a departure from traditional performance practices in musical terms. It is an attempt to
open new pathways of political storytelling that unite cinematic, musical, and societal
dimensions into a shared narrative structure.
| Date of Award | 2025 |
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| Original language | German (Austria) |
| Supervisor | Roland Keil (Supervisor) |
Studyprogram
- Digital Arts