Interferenza omotopica e locational imaging noir. Una riflessione geocritica sugli spazi disturbanti nel cinema a partire da Black Dahlia

• Main Author: Giorgio Avezzù
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Associazione Ocula 2019-12-01
• Series: Ocula
• Subjects: geosemiotica; geosemiotics; spazio; cinema; geografia; geocritica; hollywood; space; film studies; geography; geocritics
• Online Access: https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-21-AVEZZU-Interferenza-omotopica-e-locational-imaging-noir

This paper aims at offering a geocritical exploration of cinema starting from The Black Dahlia (Brian De Palma, 2006) and retracing the tradition of the noir film genre, taking into consideration the peculiar relations between this genre and "real" spaces and geographies. The question of Hollywood cinema representing Hollywood itself (and Los Angeles) will be considered in order to verify a fundamental difference between how "disturbing spaces" are constructed in cinema and in literature. While the geocritical approach to the study of literature usually maintains that similar "interfering" spaces are (de)constructed through "heterotopic" strategies, the case of noir film genre shows how cinema - a very singular locative medium - can effectively rely on "homotopic" strategies, instead.