The perennial commitment of Francesco Rosi in his most contemporary cinema, through his work Dimenticare Palermo (The Palermo Connection)

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https://doi.org/10.25029/od.2024.387.25

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Francesco Rosi, The Palermo connection, Italian cinema, Noir Cinema, Political Cinema

Abstract

Throughout his work, film director Francesco Rosi adopted a political commitment to the current issues that afflicted Italy, especially the south of the country. In one of his last works, Dimenticare Palermo (The Palermo Connection 1990), he delves into the relationship between politics and the Mafia. Conditioned by the themes he deals with, his films end up adopting a narrative close to film noir. Contemporary to the debate of that time, he takes a position in favor of a controlled legalization of drugs, even if the confrontation with the PSI, which advocated a different position, has jeopardized his project.

Author Biographies

Ludovico Longhi, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Ludovico Longhi holds a degree in literature from the University of Bologna (Italy), with a thesis on the cinema of Vicente Aranda. In 1997, he received a pre-doctoral research grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya. From the same year until today, he teaches Theory and History of Cinema at the Faculty of Audiovisual Communication at the UAB. In 2011, he received his PhD with the thesis Radici culturali della comicità di Alberto Sordi. In 2019, he published (together with Valerio Carando and Rosa Gutiérrez) the volume From Scipio to Berlusconi: A History of Italy in 50 Films.

Ezequiel Ramon Pinat, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

Ezequiel Ramon-Pinat is Professor of Communication and Public Opinion at the Department of Media, Communication and Culture, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is also a researcher at the Comress-Incom group, Institute of Communication. He has a BA in Journalism, an MA, and a Ph.D. in Media, Communication, and Culture from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His areas of interest include journalism, social networks, the Internet, and traditional media while focusing on the sociology of communication. He also teaches Audiences and Public Opinion in the Master in Journalism and Digital Communication: Data and New Narratives at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Bergen, Norway, and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

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2024-07-01

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Longhi, L., & Ramon Pinat, E. (2024). The perennial commitment of Francesco Rosi in his most contemporary cinema, through his work Dimenticare Palermo (The Palermo Connection) . Obra Digital, (25), 103–115. https://doi.org/10.25029/od.2024.387.25

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No. 25 (2024): Innovations in Narrative and Media: Transmedia, Interactions and Culture

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