This book documents and analyzes how the contemporary Mediterranean city manages and negotiates its identity as a result of recent reconfigurations in its cultural, religious, and social landscape. The chapters in this book provide a broad and comprehensive investigation of the ways in which recent cultural productions have framed and re-imagined the Mediterranean city as a locus of departures, arrivals and contested belonging.
This book documents and analyzes how the contemporary Mediterranean city manages and negotiates its identity as a result of recent reconfigurations in its cultural, religious, and social landscape. The chapters in this book provide a broad and comprehensive investigation of the ways in which recent cultural productions have framed and re-imagined the Mediterranean city as a locus of departures, arrivals and contested belonging.
Michela Ardizzoni is assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Valerio Ferme is professor of Italian at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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Introduction: The Mediterranean, the City, and Cultural Encounters Valerio Ferme and Michela Ardizzoni Chapter 1: Decadent Nights: A Cocaine-Filled Reading of 1920s Post-Ottoman Istanbul G. Carole Woodall Chapter 2: Close(d) Encounters: Tangier, the Arts, and the North-South Divide Mary Vogl Chapter 3: Cityscapes as Dystopias in Moroccan Film: Hicham Lasri's L'Os de fer (2007) Valérie K. Orlando Chapter 4: New Imagined Frenchness: Med'In Marseille and the Identity Debates in France Nabil Echchaibi Chapter 5: Neapolitan Media Activism and Translocal Identities Michela Ardizzoni Chapter 6: Where is Naples? Locating Naples in John Turturro's film Passione Guillaume Bernardi Chapter 7: Lands of Approximation: The Use of Chinese Icons in Roberto Saviano's Gomorra and Ermanno Rea's La dismissione Valentina Fulginiti Chapter 8: Utopia by the Sea: The Disappearance of the City and the Myth the Mediterranean in Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Mediterraneo, and Il Postino Valerio Ferme About the Contributors
Introduction: The Mediterranean, the City, and Cultural Encounters Valerio Ferme and Michela Ardizzoni Chapter 1: Decadent Nights: A Cocaine-Filled Reading of 1920s Post-Ottoman Istanbul G. Carole Woodall Chapter 2: Close(d) Encounters: Tangier, the Arts, and the North-South Divide Mary Vogl Chapter 3: Cityscapes as Dystopias in Moroccan Film: Hicham Lasri's L'Os de fer (2007) Valérie K. Orlando Chapter 4: New Imagined Frenchness: Med'In Marseille and the Identity Debates in France Nabil Echchaibi Chapter 5: Neapolitan Media Activism and Translocal Identities Michela Ardizzoni Chapter 6: Where is Naples? Locating Naples in John Turturro's film Passione Guillaume Bernardi Chapter 7: Lands of Approximation: The Use of Chinese Icons in Roberto Saviano's Gomorra and Ermanno Rea's La dismissione Valentina Fulginiti Chapter 8: Utopia by the Sea: The Disappearance of the City and the Myth the Mediterranean in Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Mediterraneo, and Il Postino Valerio Ferme About the Contributors
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