Een antropologische televisiemythe is een goed excuus om de antropologie van televisie in het culturele debat te introduceren. De geschiedenis van een land en zijn bevolking via de archieven van honderden particuliere televisiekanalen, verspreid over heel Italië.

An Anthropological Television Myth is a gloriously jagged collage of fragments culled from an independent Sicilian TV station's output in the mid-90s – the period just before the 'Berlusconi era'. But whereas the Milanese media mogul's spells as president were notable for the cynical degradation of his nation's television output, with its bawdy game-shows earning much overseas derision, the small broadcaster showcased here evidently foregrounded and documented local grass-roots political shenanigans. With no commentary or captions, the film plunges us into a lively day-before-yesterday epoch when the authorities' battles with the Mafia produced an atmosphere akin to Civil War on the streets. Virtuouso editing knits together a dizzyingly wide range of sights and sounds that consistently fascinate and impress.

An Anthropological Television Myth est une bonne excuse pour introduire l’anthropologie de la télévision dans le débat culturel. L’histoire d’un pays et de son peuple à travers les archives de centaines de chaines de télévisions privées, réparties dans toute l’Italie.