Il futuro della nostalgia oggi : Ritorno al paesaggio nel cinema indipendente americano

American independent cinema focuses on the concept of body and bodies, as well as on the definition of personal and collective identities, in which the landscape has a crucial role: from the relation with the decayed urban scene (1976-1990) to the return of the rural setting seen as a fertile habitat and an architype of the imaginary to be reactivated (from 2001). On the traces of Jean Baudrillard’s "America" (1986), the essay explores this latter phase, in which the relation with the landscape regenerates the indie cinema becoming a shared locus of the visual and film culture made in the U.S.A.