The cinemas of Italian migration : European and transatlantic narratives

The cinemas of Italian migration : European and transatlantic narratives / edited by Sabine Schrader and Daniel Winkler.

Italy is more strongly influenced by the experiences of migrants than many other European countries. This includes an historically ongoing internal migration from the south to the north, which is strongly echoed in neo-realism; a mass emigration mainly to western Europe and North and South America t...

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Other Authors: Winkler, Daniel, 1972- (Editor), Schrader, Sabine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Subjects:
Motion pictures, Italian > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Italy > History.
Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Motion pictures, Italian
Emigration and immigration in motion pictures
Motion pictures
Italy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction : The Cinemas of Italian Migration: From Il cammino della speranza (1950) to Into Paradiso (2010) / Sabine Schrader and Daniel Winkler
  • The Southern Question and Italian Cinema
  • Solid Borders, Fluid Nation: On Pietro Germi's Il cammino della speranza (1950) / Laura Rascaroli
  • Identity, Masculinity and Postcolonial Scenarios in Gianni Amelio's Lamerica (1994) / Veronica Pravadelli
  • The Mediterranean or Where Africa does (not) meet Italy : Andrea Segres A Sud di Lampedusa (2006) / Alessandra Di Maio
  • New Italian Migrant Cinema between Cinematic Nostalgia and Trash (Bellocchio, Marra, Torre) / Daniel Winkler
  • Transnational Mobility and Precarious Labour in Post-Cold War Europe : The Spectral Disruptions of Carmine Amorosos Cover Boy (2006) / Alice Bardan and ℓine OHealy
  • 'The Journey from a poor country' : Attempts to Escape Italys economic and moral poverty in recent documentaries / Francesca Esposito
  • Northward, Westward. Italian Emigration and International Cinema
  • Modernizing Italian Migration Cinema : Film Auteurs and the Economic Boom / Alberto Zambenedetti
  • 'C'era una volta in Svizzera' : 'The Italians' in Swiss cinema / Sophie Rudolph
  • Playing with Stereotypes : Martin Scorseses Italianamerican (1974) / Camille Gendrault
  • Cinema, Migration and Crisis : Sandra Gugliottas Un dia de suerte (2002) / Gudrun Rath
  • Nomadic Narratives : Migration Cinema in Germany and Italy / Aurora E. Rodoṇ
  • Film genre and 'Italianita'
  • 'Mine vaganti' : Film Theoretical Considerations on Transculturality and the Cinema of Ferzan Ozpetek / Rada Bieberstein
  • The (Migrant) Other and Crime : La Giusta Distanza (2007) by Carlo Mazzacurati as a Multilayered Depiction of a cliched connection / Doris Pichler
  • 'E giusto vivere cosi?' : Contemporary melodrama and migration / Jorg Metelmann
  • Comedy Film and Immigration to Italy : Reading Masculinity, Hybridity, and Satire in Lezioni di cioccolato (2007), Questa notte e ancora nostra (2008), and Into Paradiso (2010) / Gaoheng Zhang
  • Selected Italian Migrant Cinema Filmography
  • Selected bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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