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Regionalism and RepresentationUniversity of Warwick04.26.2013
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an island
Antioco Floris, University of Cagliari
Ivan Girina, University of Warwick
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
SARDINIAN CINEMA
1900s 1990s
1990s today
Hetero-representation
• literary mediation• crystallized stereotypes• mythical vision of the island
Self-representation
• first-hand experience• critical awareness• interpretation of modernity
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
Grazia DeleddaNobel Prize in Literature, 1926
• sensational dramas• world suspended in time• adverse fortune
Cenere (Ash)Febo Mari, 1916
Starring Eleonora Duse
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
Cenere: Sardinian environments reproduced in the Apuan Alps and in studio
At the foot of the Gennargentu mountains
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
La Grazia (The Grace)Aldo De Benedetti, 1929
Sardinian environments reproduced in the mountains of Central Italy and in studio
Georges Sadoul
Cenere:Sardinian landscape is the main character of the drama
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
12 films based on the works of Grazia Deledda
Proibito (Forbidden)Mario Monicelli, 1954
• western genre style• enforced exotic appeal
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
Exotism depriving Sardinia of its true identity:
• wild-west scenary• unexplored tropical islands• futuristic worlds• deserted wastelands
Signor Robinson, Sergio Corbucci, 1976 Deguejo, Giuseppe Vari, 1966
2+5 Missione Hydra,Pietro Francisci,1966
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
Sardinian cinema 1900/1990
Common traits influenced by Deledda’s work:
• melodramas out of time• ancestral world• passionate loves• sinful vision of religion• inescapable fate• outlaws• shepherds• women in black• nuraghe
Nuraghe:typical Sardinian tower-like architectures dated back to the 19th century B.C.
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
Banditi a Orgosolo (Bandits of Orgosolo)Vittorio De Seta, 1961
“Time is measured according to seasonal migrations, the search for grazing and water.The soul of these people is still primitive. What is right to their law, it’s not in the modern world.The only things that matter to them are family and community bonds.Everything else is incomprehensible and hostile; even the State, embodied in the police and the prisons. Out of modernity, they only know rifles.The rifle is used to hunt, to defend oneself and also to attack. They can become outlaws over night, without realising it”
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
Martin Scorsese
Bandits of Orgosolo:
“reveals an archaic and uncontaminated world, in which people speak an ancient dialect, living according to traditional rules”
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
Socio-political and cultural shift in Italy at the beginning of the 1990s:
• “mani pulite” and end of the Italian first republic
• neo-television
• emergence of young nativeauthors in Sardinia
New Sardinian cinema:shows the real Sardinian world from an internal perspective
SELF-REPRESENTATION
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
Sardinian language as prominent identity-related theme due to:
• Sardinian is a neo-Latin language• 1997: law for the preservation of linguistic minority• rehabilitation through mass media• integration within school curricula• spreading in literary production
• refashioning of the local language• multiple registers and geographical variations
Use of Sardinian language at the cinema:
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick
New Sardinian cinema:
• presence of an industrial and post-industrial economy
• agropastoral economy• rise of the multicultural
urban environments• urban sub-proletariat• bourgeois upper-middle class
Bellas Mariposas, Salvatore Mereu, 2012
Jimmy della Collina,Enrico Pau,2006
Tajabone,Salvatore Mereu,2009
Dimmi che destino avrò,Peter Marcias,2012
The Sardinia case: issues of memory and identity in the cinematographic representation of an islandAntioco Floris, University of CagliariIvan Girina, University of Warwick