A Mediterranean Heterotopia
Gabriele Salvatores and the Poetics of “Fleeing”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12427615 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vincenzo Binetti (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 74-85 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mediterranean Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1074-164X • E-ISSN: 2161-4741 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.23.1.0074 |
| OpenAlex | W576985612 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article discusses the film Mediterraneo, directed by Gabriele Salvatores, in order to problematize and renegotiate its apparent political and historical inconsistencies and contradictions. The film presents a narration of certain events that characterized the role of the Italian nation-state and the fascist regime in the conflict against Greece during World War II. But Salvatores avoids a linear, official, or objective representation of those historical events, and proposes instead a fragmented, subjective, and potentially subversive (re)reading of that period. The deterritorialized spatiality of a Mediterranean island becomes therefore, in this film, an emblematic space of autonomy where a newly formed community temporarily removes itself from the simplistic notions established by the logic of armed conflict. Salvatores thus questions and subverts the implications of a hegemonic, belligerent discourse perpetrated by the nation-states at war against each other
Aesthetics · Art · Autonomy · Belligerent · Hegemony · Heterotopia (medicine · Literature · Narrative · Poetics · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Historical and Environmental Studies · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |