Acting Across Borders : : Mobility and Identity in Italian Cinema / / Alberto Zambenedetti.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 30 B/W illustrations |
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Table of 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