The Roma in new millennium Italian fiction films : dissensus, liminality, emancipation.

Hope, WH 2016, 'The Roma in new millennium Italian fiction films : dissensus, liminality, emancipation.' , The Italianist (Film Issue), 36 (2) , pp. 266-286.

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Abstract

The Roma endow films with a strong political resonance through their exposure to micro- and macro-level discrimination and reactionary populism in contemporary Italy. A socio-political evolution can be traced in the way new millennium Italian fiction films have depicted the Roma. Early 21st century films were compromised by an ambivalence stemming from an outwardly progressive, ‘ethical’, and denunciatory impetus that was vitiated by a hegemonic, ethnocentric Italian mindset and an emphasis on tropes of Roma criminality. However, recent works including Laura Halilovic’s Io, rom romantica overcome this ambivalence through emancipatory impulses that reflect Jacques Rancière’s concept of dissensus – a disruption of society’s ‘natural’ political order and public spaces by those who have not been considered as political beings. Ernst Bloch’s writings on the utopian Not-Yet-Conscious also shed light on recent cinematic visions of progressive future configurations for the Roma within the polis, the films’ female protagonists occupying liminal positions between Roma and Italian culture.

Item Type:	Article
Schools:	Schools > School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences
Journal or Publication Title:	The Italianist (Film Issue)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
ISSN:	0261-4340
Related URLs:	Publication
Funders:	Non funded research
Depositing User:	WH Hope
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2016 11:02
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2022 17:36
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/38108

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