Acting across borders : mobility and identity in Italian cinema / Alberto Zambenedetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zambenedetti, Alberto, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sordi, Alberto, 1920-2003--Criticism and interpretation.

Sordi, Alberto.

Motion pictures--Italy--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Bordersexplores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility.

Contents:

Intro

Acting Across Borders

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION: ACTING ACROSS BORDERS

Part One Amedeo Nazzari

Introduction to Part One: Amedeo Nazzari's Many Im/mobilities

1 Flying: Empire Cinema's (Aero)Mobilities

2 Returning: Im/mobility and Immigrant's Nostalgia

3 Fighting: Wartime Im/mobility in Harlem

4 Romancing: Postwar Im/mobilities in Raffaello Matarazzo's Melodramas

5 Migrating: The Pathology of Im/mobility

Conclusion to Part One: Driving the Flâneuse: Le notti di Cabiria

Part Two Alberto Sordi

Introduction to Part Two: Alberto Sordi's Mobile Comedies

6 Vacationing: The Rise of the Travelling Comedian

7 Working: 'L'Italia è una Repubblica Democratica, fondata sul lavoro'

8 Killing: Criminal Mobilities

9 Exploring: Italian Identity Abroad

10 Drilling: (Auto)Mobile Satires of Global Petroculture

Conclusion to Part Two: Driving Across (Screen) Borders

Filmography

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-3989-6

1-4744-3988-8

OCLC:

1242108434