Checco Zalone is one of the most important phenomena of Italian Cinema of the last decades. One of the constants of his cinema is the presence of the song-form, in particular of original songs (original soundtrack), used as a mean to transit from the theatre, radio and TV to the cinema: this paper constitutes a sociosemiotic, interdisciplinary and culturalist analysis of the different expressive modalities with which Zalone makes use of his songs, that become a configuration element of his own

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... tyle, representing a specific cinematographic way and strengthening Zalone's authorial role in his cinema in a complex and considerable way.