IDEA è l’acronimo di Interdisciplinary Discourses, Education and Analysis, una pubblicazione annuale del London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research. Animato da studiose e studiosi accademici e indipendenti, il Centro promuove confronti nelle aree interconnesse che interessano “memory studies, historiography, migration studies, gender studies, anthropology, narratives, creativity, media and film studies, and medical humanities”.
Dopo un primo numero sul mito (Myth: Intersections and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021), il fascicolo uscito nell’estate del 2022 si focalizza sul tema multisfaccettato della Visual History, con una sezione speciale dedicata a Life, Narration and Storytelling.
Introdotti dall’editoriale del direttore Gabriele Biotti, e da un affondo di Florian Brody su come i media digitali stanno cambiando la nostra percezione e interazione con la storia e con la memoria (The Digital Penumbra of Memory), i contributi toccano episodi della storia recente riverberati, smontati, riassemblati nei linguaggi del cinema, dei media, dell’arte concettuale e performativa, del discorso storico e narrativo, con un focus finale sul racconto biografico e autobiografico. Ecco l’indice:

Maria Duarte Furtado Marques and Elena Stanciu – Horrors of History and Colonial Imaginaries. The Construction and Representation of Black Embodiment in Them (2021)

Louise Francezon – (Re)building Women’s War Memory in Biographical Cinema: the Case of Female Spies’ Films in Post-war Britain

Elisa Oliver and Jonathan Whitehall – ‘The Past Dreams the Future Present’: Dream as Political Visual Historiography in the work of Artist and Film Maker Derek Jarman

Steve Ostovich – Visualizing Historical Trauma in Claude Lanzmann’s ‘Shoah’ (1985)

Stefania Guglielmo, Tiziana Lentini and Barbara Priolo – Contemporary Migrations Between Cinematographic Representation and Historical Reconstruction: the Cases of ‘Human Flow’ (2017) and ‘Fuocoammare’ (2016)

Edoardo Rugo – Representation and Dismissal of the Past in Pasolini’s Cinema

Aurélia Gafsi – Representing the Last Military Dictatorship in Argentina: The Example of the Graphic Novel ‘ESMA’ (Juan Carrá, Iñaki Echeverría)

Ewa Grajber – Representations of the Past in Visual Form as a Tool in Educational Process. An Example of History of Spain Till XIX Century

Antonella Sbrilli – A Wall of Dates: How a Work of Art Can Make the 20th Century Readable, Audible and Traversable

Tiziana Lentini – Life Narration and Storytelling

Chiara Corazza – ‘The Eternal Paradox of History’: An Analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Autobiographical and Fictional Writings

Wolfgang Büchel – The Biographical Darkness. On the Fragmentation of Life Narratives

Il numero 2 del 2022 di IDEA – Interdisciplinary Discourses, Education and Analysis si può scaricare gratuitamente a questo indirizzo.

L’immagine in apertura: Daniela Comani, dettaglio dell’installazione My Diary – Your News, OSA Archivum and Goethe Institut Budapest, 2016

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