Acting across borders : mobility and identity in Italian cinema /

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. Through close readings of a selection of films, Alberto Zambenedetti examines the concept of italianità (I...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zambenedetti, Alberto (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Nazzari, Amedeo, > 1907-1979 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sordi, Alberto, > 1919-2003 > Criticism and interpretation.
Nazzari, Amedeo, > 1907-1979.
Sordi, Alberto, > 1919-2003.
1900-1999
Motion pictures > Italy > History > 20th century.
Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.
Cinéma > Italie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Émigration et immigration au cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning
Motion pictures.
Italy.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Film criticism.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Flying: empire cinema's (aero)mobilities
  • Returning: im/mobility and immigrant's nostalgia
  • Fighting: wartime im/mobility in Harlem
  • Romancing: postwar im/mobilities in Raffaello Matarazzo's melodramas
  • Migrating: the pathology of im/mobility
  • Vacationing: the rise of the travelling comedian
  • Working: 'L'Italia è una repubblica democratica, fondata sul lavoro'
  • Killing: criminal mobilities
  • Exploring: Italian identity abroad
  • Drilling: (auto)mobile satires of global petroculture.

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