{"id":505,"date":"2020-06-18T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.unibas.it\/life2020\/?page_id=505"},"modified":"2021-01-17T14:44:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:44:43","slug":"past-abstract","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.unibas.it\/life\/past-abstract\/","title":{"rendered":"LiFE 2020 Conference &#8211; Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Elena Past<br><\/strong>Wayne State University (USA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Itinerant Ecocriticism in Basilicata and Italian Cinema on Foot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This presentation identifies an innovative impulse guiding Italian ecocriticism, and also a recurrent trend in Italian cinema: that of thinking on foot. Drawing I particular on the work of sociologist and philosopher Franco Cassano in&nbsp;<em>Il pensiero meridiano<\/em>, I consider why some contemporary Italian philosopher-filmmakers seek to understand Italy at a pace that works strategically (and at times defiantly) against petroleum-fueled speed. Three contemporary films that pass through or alight in Basilicata (<em>Il mio paese&nbsp;<\/em>[2006],&nbsp;<em>Basilicata Coast to Coast&nbsp;<\/em>[2010], and&nbsp;<em>La lunga strada gialla&nbsp;<\/em>[2016]) vibrantly illustrate an itinerant filmmaking technique where nostalgia for a past way of life is tempered by engaged resistance. Against the \u201cslow violence\u201d being perpetrated on Italian landscapes\u2014a slow violence of toxic contamination at the hand of ecomafias, of the cementification of agricultural lands and delicate coasts\u2014and against the speed of turbocapitalism, thinking on foot enables modes of ethics and aesthetics attuned to both historical depth and ecological crisis. In the view from Basilicata, Italy is no longer a \u201cbel paese,\u201d but rather an ecocultural landscape in which the seeds for meaningful change are deeply embedded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><strong>Elena Past\u00a0<\/strong>is Professor of Italian in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Her research includes publications on the toxic waste crisis in Naples, Mediterranean cinema and ecocinema, and Italian crime fiction and film, and she is currently working on study of the iconic Ferrania film factory from the perspective of the environmental humanities. She is the author of\u00a0<em>Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction<\/em>\u00a0(2012) and\u00a0<em>Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human\u00a0<\/em>(2019). She co-edited\u00a0<em>Thinking Italian Animals: Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film\u00a0<\/em>(2014)<em>\u00a0<\/em>with Deborah Amberson,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies\u00a0<\/em>(2018) with Serenella Iovino and Enrico Cesaretti. She currently serves as co-editor of the\u00a0<em>Italianist Film Issue\u00a0<\/em>in collaboration with Danielle Hipkins and Monica Seger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elena PastWayne State University (USA) Itinerant Ecocriticism in Basilicata and Italian Cinema on Foot This presentation identifies an innovative impulse guiding Italian ecocriticism, and also a recurrent trend in Italian cinema: that of thinking on foot. Drawing I particular on the work of sociologist and philosopher Franco Cassano in&nbsp;Il pensiero meridiano, I consider why some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.unibas.it\/life\/past-abstract\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LiFE 2020 Conference &#8211; Abstract&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.unibas.it\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.unibas.it\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.unibas.it\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.unibas.it\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.unibas.it\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.unibas.it\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/web.unibas.it\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.unibas.it\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}