Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology

This volume offers an open, transdisciplinary living space (also green) through which to explore the different connections between Basilicata and Southern Italy, cinema, and ecology, and thus to reflect on the different forms through which the historical, cultural, and social contexts of Southern Italian regions have been variously identified and represented. In order to explore these connections, the volume embraces a wide range of perspectives that may all be grouped under the key term film ecocriticism , offering the reader a thorough analysis not only of the different ways of representing reality but also of the processes of signification through which reality itself can be understood, rethought, and transformed. This is the general framework within which the authors consider film as a proper, effective medium for ecocritical and ecophilosophical reflections concerning not only Basilicata (to which the greater part of the volume is dedicated) but also Southern Italy and, therefore, its history and its territories, communities, and identities. Furthermore, in an even more general sense, Basilicata and Southern Italy reconnects with the very idea of the South, and of all Souths, to which this volume is dedicated.

Timely contribution to the fields of Italian film studies, ecocriticism and global South studies Combines different but contiguous approaches to film with environmental studies, eco-philosophies, and eco-poetics Offers an unique occasion to meditate on the historical and cultural heritage of Basilicata and Southern Italy

Auteur

Alberto Baracco is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Basilicata, Italy. His main research interests are film philosophy and film ecocriticism. His recent publications include the book Italian Experiences of Trauma through Film and Media (2022), and the monograph, Philosophy in Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man (2019).

Manuela Gieri is Associate Professor at the University of Basilicata, Italy. Her main research interests are film history, contemporary Italian women's writing, and new historiography. Among her works, deserving special mention are Contemporary Italian Filmmaking: Strategies of Subversion (1995), Cinema. Dalle origini allo studio system (1895-1945) (2009).

Contenu

Preface

Acknowledgements, Introduction. Towards South: For a New Ecology of the Gaze (7,000 words) by Manuela Gieri.- Section 1 Travels, Paths, Narrations (19-22,000 words),-Introduction1.- 1.1 Itinerant Ecocriticism in Basilicata and Italian Cinema on Foot by Elena Past.- 1.2 Southern Realities and Emotions: Francesco Rosi's Cultural Voyages by Gaetana Marrone.- 1.3 Lucania, Land of Fairy-Tales and Film by Alberto Baracco Section 2 Places, Landscapes, Relations (19-22,000 words) Introduction.- 2.1 Matera: Matter and Image of the Chronotope City by Carmelo Marabello and Simona Arillotta.- 2.2 Basilicata Inside and Outside: The Lucanian Landscape and the Interior/Exterior Relation in Non-Fiction Cinema by Massimiliano Gaudiosi.- 2.3 Nicola Ragone's Cinema, Between Art, Ecology and Marginality by Lucrezia Naglieri Section 3 History, Memories, Identities (19-22,000 words) Introduction.- 3.1 Roccoe i suoi fratelli: Luchino Visconti's Lucania Between Real and Imaginaryby Maria Teresa Imbriani.- 3.2 Meridian landscape and documentary image: Luigi Di Gianni's short movies by Nausica Tucci.- 3.3 Isabella di Morra's «valle inferna» Between Myth and Reality. About the Movie Sexum superando by Aurora Zaccagnino Section 4 Conflicts, Traumas, Reconstructions (19-22,000 words) Introduction.- 4.1 Remedial Gestures and Silence of the Myths in Lucanian Documentary Cinema of the 1950s by Lucia Di Girolamo.- 4.2 A Sea of Black Gold: On Lucanian Petrodocumentaries by Paolo Chirumbolo.- 4.3 Past and Future of a Region. Basilicata in the Documentary Cinema of the Fifties and Sixties by Mariangela Palmieri Conclusion Final Remarks on Methodology and Film Ecocriticism (5,000 words) by Manuela Gieri and Alberto Baracco References.- Index. <p