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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schrader, Sabine.

Winkler, Daniel, 1972-

Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.

Motion pictures, Italian--History and criticism.

Motion pictures, Italian.

Physical Description:

vi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2013.

Summary:

This title brings together international contributions on early Italian post-WWII cinema. Additionally, it includes articles dealing with often marginalized filmmakers, independent productions and genres like contemporary Italian documentary films.

Contents:

The Southern Question and Italian Cinema

Solid Borders, Fluid Nation: On Pietro Germi's Il cammino della speranza (1950) / Laura Rascaroli Rascaroli, Laura 21

Identity, Masculinity and Postcolonial Scenarios in Gianni Amelio's Lamerica (1994) / Veronica Pravadelli Pravadelli, Veronica 31

The Mediterranean or Where Africa Does (Not) Meet Italy: Andrea Segre's A Sud di Lampedusa (2006) / Alessandra Di Maio Maio, Alessandra Di 41

New Italian Migrant Cinema between Cinematic Nostalgia and Trash (Bellocchio, Marra, Torre) / Daniel Winkler Winkler, Daniel 53

Transnational Mobility and Precarious Labour in Post-Cold War Europe: The Spectral Disruptions of Carmine Amoroso's Cover Boy (2006) / Alice Bardan Bardan, Alice, Aine O'Healy O'Healy, Aine 69

"The Journey from a Poor Country." Attempts to Escape Italy's Economic and Moral Poverty in Recent Documentaries / Francesca Esposito Esposito, Francesca 91

Northward, Westward. Italian Emigration and International Cinema

Modernizing Italian Migration Cinema: Film Auteurs and the Economic Boom / Alberto Zambenedetti Zambenedetti, Alberto 107

"Cera una volta in Svizzera"-"The Italians" in Swiss Cinema / Sophie Rudolph Rudolph, Sophie 123

Playing with Stereotypes: Martin Scorsese's Italianamerican (1974) / Camille Gendrault Gendrault, Camille 141

Cinema, Migration and Crisis: Sandra Gugliotta's Un día de suerte (2002) / Gudrun Rath Rath, Gudrun 157

Nomadic Narratives: Migration Cinema in Germany and Italy / Aurora E. Rodonò Rodonò, Aurora E. 171

Film Genre and "Italianità"

"Mine vaganti": Film Theoretical Considerations on Transculturality and the Cinema of Ferzan Ozpetek / Rada Bieberstein Bieberstein, Rada 201

The (Migrant) Other and Crime: La Giusta Distanza (2007) by Carlo Mazzacurati as a Multilayered Depiction of a Clichéd Connection / Doris Pichler Pichler, Doris 231

"È giusto vivere cosi?" Contemporary Melodrama and Migration / Jörg Metelmann Metelmann, Jörg 247

Comedy Film and Immigration to Italy: Reading Masculinity, Hybridity, and Satire in Lezioni di cioccolato (2007), Questa notte è ancora nostra (2008), and Into Paradiso (2010) / Gaoheng Zhang Zhang, Gaoheng 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Jacobs Family Cinema Studies Fund.

ISBN:

1443846244

9781443846240

OCLC:

830813261

Publisher Number:

99954551305