Strategie e risultati del Piano B. L'agency nel cinema italiano contemporaneo (original) (raw)

Strategies and Outputs of the "Plan B". Agency in the Italian Contemporary Cinema The article aims to analyse a thematic aspect of contemporary Italian cinema from Smetto quando voglio (2014) to The Place (2017): several films of the last years present characters who decide to restart their own lives, with which they are dissatisfied, by effecting an existential and professional Plan B (a very meaningful film in this perspective is Che vuoi che sia, 2016). The study is based on a methodological framework, which is focused on the concept of agency, the human ability to conceive an objective and to reach it through action. From the canon of the movies taken into consideration, fanciful or impossible projects, left to the improvisation, emerge. Due to this, these intentions and experiences turn out to be in itself negative, besides the fact that they come to touch crime and result therefore dangerous and self-defeating for the same promoting subjects. and International Relations at the University of Macerata. He works on contemporary fiction, theory of literature and relationships between literature and cinema. His studies are focused on B. Fenoglio, P. Levi (Bello e falso. Il cinema secondo Primo Levi, «Studi novecenteschi», 2007), G. Celati, P. Citati, P.P. Pasolini, M. Soldati, E. Trevi, D. Orecchio, media representation of dystopia (Il virus efficiente. Un esperimento di critica transmediale, «griseldaonline», 2015). He has recently published Fernando di Leo e la letteratura noir, in Il cinema di Fernando di Leo (2017) and he is currently studying the influence of John Cassavetes's movies on narrative theory and novels by Gianni Celati.