Giorgio Bertellini

Italy in Early American Cinema

Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque

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Produktbeschreibung

Italy in Early American Cinema offers readings of early films that pay close attention to how landscape representations that were related to narrative settings and filmmaking locations conveyed distinct ideas about racial difference and national destiny.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9780253221285
• ISBN-10: 0253221285
• Artikelnr.: 26570127

Autorenporträt

Giorgio Bertellini is Assistant Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures and of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He is author of Emir Kusturica. His edited and co-edited volumes include The Cinema of Italy and (with Richard Abel and Rob King) Early Cinema and the "National."

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Transatlantic Racial Culture and Modern Visual Reproductions
Part 1. Picturing Italy's Natural and Social Landscapes
1. Picturesque Mode of Difference
2. The Picturesque Italian South as Transnational Commodity
Part 2. Picture-Perfect America
3. Picturesque Views and American Natural Landscapes
4. Picturesque New York
5. Black Hands, White Faces
6. White Hearts
7. Performing Geography
Afterword: "A Mirror with a Memory"
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index