Homi Bhaba's Third Space in Özpetek's Cinema

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,3, University of St Andrews, language: English, abstract: In his attempt to break down binary thought structures that characterise interactions between different cultures, in his 1994 work Location of culture, Homi Bhabha defines the term of third space as a place where identities can be renegotiated. The third space can be located beyond the bipolarity of ‘us’ and ‘them’ and thus is a territory where we can escape the dilemma o...