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Il cinema, l'automobile e la morte al lavoro [Cinema, Cars and Death at Work]
(IMS)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7607-399x
2009 (Italian)In: 10th International Conference 'Da Ulisse a... Il viaggio in auto: mito e attualità' [From Ulysses To... Car Travelling: Myth and Contemporaneity], University of Genoa, Imperia, Italy, 1-3 October 2009, 2009Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
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Abstract [it]

Nel XX secolo cinema e automobile hanno significato un'espansione dei limiti umani: rispettivamente dei limiti temporali e spaziali. Tuttavia ogni superamento del limite nasconde in sé il “Rischio di Icaro”: la constatazione della fragilità umana, il memento mori. Riprendendo da Jean Cocteau il concetto di Specchio come “Morte al lavoro”, si andrà a rintracciare la costante minaccia della Morte nel binomio Cinema-Automobile, in opere come Il sorpasso, Toby Dammit, Christine. Come momento di convergenza delle riflessioni teoriche esposte e come analisi esemplare si prenderà in esame Grindhouse: Death Proof, film che presenta la “Morte al lavoro”, sia sul versante automobilistico che su quello cinematografico, in modo emblematico.

Abstract [en]

In the 20th century, the inventions of cinema and automobile represented an expansion of the human limits: time and spatial limits, respectively. However, every overcoming of human limits brings about the "risk of Icarus": the often deathly realisation of human fragility, a Memento Mori. Borrowing from Jean Cocteau the concept of the mirror as "death at work" and by extension of cinema as “death at work on the actors”, the paper traces the frequent presence of the threat of death that can be found in the cinema-automobile coupling, for example in such films as Il sorpasso (1962), the Toby Dammit episode of Histoires extraordinaires (1968), or Christine (1983). A site of convergence of the theoretical reflections is Grindhouse: Death Proof (2007), a film that presents, in an emblematic way, the "death at work" encapsulated both in the automobile machine and in the cinema machine.

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2009.
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Studies on Film
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Humanities, Film Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-102011OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-102011DiVA, id: diva2:1542713
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10th International Conference 'Da Ulisse a... Il viaggio in auto: mito e attualità' [From Ulysses To... Car Travelling: Myth and Contemporaneity], University of Genoa, Imperia, Italy, 1-3 October 2009
Available from: 2021-04-08 Created: 2021-04-08 Last updated: 2022-01-26Bibliographically approved

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