Storia di due alberi. Il tecnopaesaggio meridiano nei film industriali del miracolo economico

The transformation of Southern landscape after the construction of new infrastructures is a crucial theme in most techno-films released during the Italian economic miracle. Here, the traditional landscape is integrated with elements formerly unknown, giving birth to an original hybrid of technics and nature. This paper analyses the images of this rising “techno-landscape” by questioning the strategies that represent it as a form, as a point of view, and as an experience, thus making it a distinctive element of Italian modernity.