At a time when the European political program is progressively challenged by the multiplication of political and social instances that articulate ideas of cultural identity, the book
interrogates the role of cinema as site for the negotiation of local culture between national and transnational realities. Starting with an analysis of Sardinian cinema as case study, this book
collects essays that look at European peripheral realities, such as those of Galicia, Corsica, Cataluna, the Balkans, but also other Italian regional areas such as Friuli, Veneto, Campania,
Puglia and Sicily, looking at the relevance of film in the definition of local identities. At the beginning of the 1990s, in Sardinia a new generation of local filmmakers inaugurated a period
of prolific cinematic production that critically reflected on the representation of the island and its identity. This book looks at the cultural and political impact of these productions in the
construction, negotiation and circulation of ideas of locality in Sardinia, offering a comparison with other marginal realities found at the cultural borders of Europe.
