1. Regionalism and Representation
University of Warwick
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

2. Hetero-representation
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
1900s  1990s
Hetero-representation
literary mediation
crystallized stereotypes
mythical vision of the island
SARDINIAN CINEMA
1990s  today
Self-representation
first-hand experience
critical awareness
interpretation of modernity

3. 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

4. Starring Eleonora Duse
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
Grazia Deledda
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1926
sensational dramas
world suspended in time
adverse fortune
Cenere (Ash)
Febo Mari, 1916
Starring Eleonora Duse

5. 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
Cenere: Sardinian environments reproduced in the Apuan Alps and in studio
At the foot of the Gennargentu mountains

6. Sardinian landscape is the main character of the drama
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
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

7. 12 films based on the works of Grazia Deledda
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
12 films based on the works of Grazia Deledda
Proibito (Forbidden)
Mario Monicelli, 1954
western genre style
enforced exotic appeal

8. Exotism depriving Sardinia of its true identity:
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
2+5 Missione Hydra,
Pietro Francisci,
1966
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

9. Common traits influenced by Deledda’s work: melodramas out of time
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
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.

10. Banditi a Orgosolo (Bandits of Orgosolo)
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
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”

11. Martin Scorsese Bandits of Orgosolo:
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
Martin Scorsese
Bandits of Orgosolo:
“reveals an archaic and uncontaminated world, in which people speak an ancient dialect, living according to traditional rules”

12. 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
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 native
authors in Sardinia
New Sardinian cinema:
shows the real Sardinian world from an internal perspective
SELF-REPRESENTATION

13. Sardinian language as prominent identity-related theme due to:
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
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
Use of Sardinian language at the cinema:
refashioning of the local language
multiple registers and geographical variations

14. 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
Jimmy della Collina,
Enrico Pau,
2006
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
Tajabone,
Salvatore Mereu,
2009
Dimmi che destino avrò,
Peter Marcias,
2012
Bellas Mariposas, Salvatore Mereu, 2012

15. 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