IMAGES TO REMEMBER: Nostalgia and Hegemonic Identities in „Italia 90: The Movie”
IMAGES TO REMEMBER: Nostalgia and Hegemonic Identities in „Italia 90: The Movie”
Author(s): Bértold Salas MurilloSubject(s): Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Psychology, Customs / Folklore, Studies of Literature, History of ideas, Culture and social structure , Nationalism Studies, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sports Studies, Theory of Literature, Politics of History/Memory, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: football; national hero; memory; nostalgia; Costa Rican cinema; identity
Summary/Abstract: The reconstruction of the past and memory is examined in the feature film Italia 90: The Movie (2014) by Miguel Gómez, which depicts the first participation of a Costa Rican team in a World Cup. The analysis includes the narrative, visual, and sound operations with which the past and memory are recreated (... or created), as well as the ways in which the story involves the viewers, particularly those who remember the episode. It is explained that, although the story resorts to certain topics of sports cinema, it is presented more as an adventure of the community, which would eventually include an entire country, and favors the exploration of the intimate over the epic. Italia 90: The Movie appeals to nostalgia, through recognizable images and sounds, as well as figures anchored in the hegemonic Costa Rican imaginary (such as the “common peasant”), to narrate an episode that, in addition to being central in the history of sports in Costa Rica, it is among the events that symbolically mark the country’s entry into the globalized world.
Journal: Review of International American Studies
- Issue Year: 15/2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 109-127
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English
