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Italian Experiences of Trauma through Film and Media

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This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of unanalyzed media. It looks at trauma not simply as a national event, but as the force creating subnational and transnational communities.

This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of media, including film, documentaries, docufiction, websites, YouTube videos, advertisements, newspapers,…
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This volume offers new approaches to considering Italy’s traumatic experiences through a wide array of media, including film, documentaries, docufiction, websites, YouTube videos, advertisements, newspapers, and literature, that have not yet been fully analyzed. It looks at the trauma inflicted on Italians not, simply, as national or cultural traumas but, rather, as the creation/identification of subnational and transnational communities shaped by these trauma cases. The term “subnational”, or “transnational”, community is used mostly in reference to human beings, as they form those communities; however, they are also connected to a specific place, namely Italy. In addition, whereas “things” cannot become traumatized, this book also considers “living things,” such as the environment and the nature, which may create further trauma(s) for people.

Alberto Baracco is Researcher in Film Studies at the University of Basilicata, Italy, and his main areas of research are film philosophy and film ecocriticism. His recent works include the two books Philosophy in Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man (2019) and Hermeneutics of the Film World (2017), and the essay “The Tree that Therefore I Am. Humans, Trees, and Gods in Cosimo Terlizzi’s Cinema” (2021).

Rosario Pollicino is Instructor in Italian Studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and he holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Western Ontario. His scholarly interests include literary, cultural, documentary and film studies, with a specific focus on transnational Italy and Mediterranean studies. His scholarly articles have been published in Quaderni d’Italianistica, NeMLA-Italian Studies, and InVerbis, among others.

Fabiana Cecchini, Enrico Cesaretti, Carmen Concilio, Paola Della Valle, Moira Di Mauro-Jackson, Robin Pickering-Iazzi, Giovanna Summerfield, Alberto Baracco, Rosario Pollicino

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-8096-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-8096-1
  • Date of Publication: 2022-03-22

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-9784-9
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-9784-6
  • Date of Publication: 2023-04-22

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-5275-8097-0
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-8097-8
  • Date of Publication: 2023-04-22

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: JFC, DSA, JFD
  • THEMA: JBCC, DSA, JBCT
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  • "This edited volume provides an insightful approach to the mapping of the Italian geographies of trauma through the lens of film, literature, and new media. A remarkable merit of this collection of essays is that it sheds light on the generative potential of both trauma and media, understood as platforms for community-building. While giving visibility to the afterlives of lesser-known traumatic events, the authors advance a timely reflection on the constitutive entanglement of individual and collective experiences of trauma. Moreover, by focusing on subnational and transnational communities, this book seeks to question conventional definitions of italianità, offering a valuable and refreshing analysis of contemporary Italian society."
    - Peter Lešnik Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen, Russia