Catherine O'Rawe

«Un passato che non passa»: La prima linea e il ritorno agli anni Settanta

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  • This paper examines the ways in which contemporary Italian middlebrow cinema has revisited the recent political past
  • and in particular the terrorism of the 1970s and 1980s. It will examine three particular devices: the use of flashback
  • the use of musical montage sequences
  • and the use of original archive footage
  • to attempt to identify a poetics of memory in films such as La prima linea (De Maria
  • 2009)
  • Il grande sogno (Placido
  • 2009)
  • La meglio gioventù (Giordana
  • 2003)
  • Romanzo criminale (Placido
  • 2005) and Il caso Moro (Ferrara
  • 1986).
  • Further
  • it will argue that these devices work to establish a poetics of what I will call 'middlebrow impegno'
  • a designation that chimes with the recent call by Antonello and Mussgnug (2009) for a «resemanticization of impegno»

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