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Acting Across Borders : Mobility and Identity in Italian Cinema / Alberto Zambenedetti.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 30 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474439862
  • 9781474439886
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of 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
Summary: Sheds new light on the notion of Italian identity as it is understood by the national cinemaCombines Film Studies with the Mobilities FrameworkLooks at previously unexplored facets of Amedeo Nazzari’s and Alberto Sordi’s careersExplores a variety of physical, ideological and social ‘borders’ in the 'cinematic bodies' of Nazzari and SordiStudying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility. Through close readings of a selection of films, Alberto Zambenedetti examines the concept of italianità (Italian-ness) as manifested in contexts related to migration, diaspora, exile, tourism, travel and their supporting infrastructures. In this wide-ranging study, the methodologies of Film Studies and the Mobilities Framework are combined to illuminate an undertheorised yet vital tradition in the history of the national cinema.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of 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

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Sheds new light on the notion of Italian identity as it is understood by the national cinemaCombines Film Studies with the Mobilities FrameworkLooks at previously unexplored facets of Amedeo Nazzari’s and Alberto Sordi’s careersExplores a variety of physical, ideological and social ‘borders’ in the 'cinematic bodies' of Nazzari and SordiStudying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility. Through close readings of a selection of films, Alberto Zambenedetti examines the concept of italianità (Italian-ness) as manifested in contexts related to migration, diaspora, exile, tourism, travel and their supporting infrastructures. In this wide-ranging study, the methodologies of Film Studies and the Mobilities Framework are combined to illuminate an undertheorised yet vital tradition in the history of the national cinema.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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