Images to Remember: Nostalgia and Hegemonic Identities in Italia 90: The Movie

• Authors: Bértold Salas-Murillo

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Soccer; National Hero; Memory; Nostalgia; Costa Rican Cinema; Identity

• Publisher: University of Silesia Press
• Journal: Review of International American Studies
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 109-127

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Bértold Salas-Murillo

• University of Costa Rica

• https://orcid.org/0000000316245320

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/rias.14721

Biblioteka Nauki

27177643