L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria

Year 24 No. 2 (2016): Issue 2/2016
Articles

Volcanic Matters: Magmatic Cinema, Ecocriticism, and Italy

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  • Elena Past

Published 12/10/2016

Keywords

  • Italian cinema,
  • ecocriticism,
  • volcanoes,
  • Aeolian Islands,
  • Giovanna Taviani,
  • posthumanism
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How to Cite

Past, E. . (2016). Volcanic Matters: Magmatic Cinema, Ecocriticism, and Italy. L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 24(2), 135–146. Retrieved from https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/222
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Abstract

Return to the Aeolian Islands (Fughe e approdi, 2010) chronicles director Giovanna Taviani’s journey to the Aeolian Islands, a volcanic archipelago off the coast of Sicily and setting for a host of films. Return documents the islands’ geological past in a study of ecological, and not just cinematic history. This essay begins to unravel the threads of a magmatic Aeolian landscape where volcanoes, cinema, and memory collaborate in the creation of more-than-human stories.

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