Alberto Zambenedetti

Acting Across Borders

Mobility and Identity in Italian Cinema

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Studying 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. Alberto Zambenedetti is Assistant Professor in the Department of Italian Studies and the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 166mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9781474439862
• ISBN-10: 1474439861
• Artikelnr.: 59361899

Autorenporträt

Alberto Zambenedetti is Assistant Professor in the Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto

Inhaltsangabe

LIST OF FIGURES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION: ACTING ACROSS BORDERS
PART ONE: AMEDEO NAZZARI
Introduction to Part One: Amedeo Nazzari's Many Im/mobilities
Chapter 1: Flying: Empire Cinema's (Aero)Mobilities
Chapter 2: Returning: Im/mobility and Immigrant's Nostalgia
Chapter 3: Fighting: Wartime Im/mobility in Harlem
Chapter 4: Romancing: Postwar Im/mobilities in Raffaello Matarazzo's Melodramas
Chapter 5: Migrating: The Pathology of Im/mobility
Conclusion: Driving the Flâneuse: Le notti di Cabiria
PART TWO: ALBERTO SORDI
Introduction to Part Two: Alberto Sordi's Comic Mobilities
Chapter 1: Vacationing: The Rise of the Travelling Comedian
Chapter 2: Working: 'L'Italia è una Repubblica Democratica, fondata sul lavoro'
Chapter 3: Killing: Criminal Mobilities
Chapter 4: Exploring: Italian Identity Abroad
Chapter 5: Drilling: (Auto)Mobile Satires of Global Petroculture
Conclusion: Driving Across (Screen) Borders
FILMOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX