Una poetica del luna park. Immagini, discorsi e valori nell'industrializzazione dell'Italia nel secondo dopoguerra. Il caso di Sarroch (Golfo di Cagliari) - A poetics of the Amusement Park. Images, Discourses, and Values in the Industrialization of Italy after World War II

This contribution considers a nucleus of visual materials relating to the Saras Refinery in Sarroch (Gulf of Cagliari) using an eco-critical approach and highlighting those features which combine to create a «poetics of the amusement park». Lights, flames and pipes are the elements in a playful rendering of the links between social and economic progress. These stylistic features, very frequent in the technical-industrial genre of cinema made between the Fifties and Seventies, can be found in documents describing other Italian areas. The article tries to show how, beyond the aesthetic level, those movies reveal a fundamental shift from a utilitarian idea of the environment that was widespread until the 1970s, to the beginnings of a new environmental discourse.