Women And Migration In Contemporary Italian Cinema

Author : Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802079025
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema written by Giovanna Faleschini Lerner and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality puts gender at the centre of cinematic representations of contemporary transnational Italian identities. It offers an intersectional feminist analysis of the ways in which transnational migration has been represented, understood, and constructed in the contemporary cinema of Italy. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hospitality and in dialogue with postcolonial and decolonial theory, queer studies, and feminist critiques, the six chapters of the book focus on a series of exemplary fiction films from the last twenty years, which both reflect and shape the nation’s responses to the growing presence of transnational migrants in Italian society. The book shows how questions of gender, sexual difference, and reproductivity have been central to Italian filmmakers’ approaches to stories of mobility and displacement. Gender is also enmeshed in the rhetoric and poetic of hospitality that filmmakers propose as a critical framework to condemn Italian border policies and politics. Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality traces an arc that moves from the embrace of a humanitarian rhetoric of infinite hospitality toward migrants, apparent in films produced in the early 2000s, to a more fluid understanding of Italian identities from a transnational perspective.

Author : Áine O'Healy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253037212
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migrant Anxieties written by Áine O'Healy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades. Áine O’Healy traces a phenomenology of anxiety that is not only present at the sociopolitical level but also interwoven into the narrative strategies of over 30 films produced since 1990, throwing into sharp relief the interface between the local and the global in this transnational era. Starting with the representation of post-communist migrations to Italy from Eastern Europe and subsequent arrivals from Africa through the controversial frontier of Lampedusa, O’Healy explores topics as diverse as the configuration of migrant labor, affective surrogacy, Italian whiteness, and the legacy of Italy’s colonial history. Showing how contemporary filmmaking practices in Italy are linked to changes in the broader media landscape, O’Healy analyzes the ways in which both Italian and migrant filmmakers are reimagining Italian society and remapping the nation’s borderscape.

Author : Bernadette Luciano
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612492959
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reframing Italy written by Bernadette Luciano and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Italian cinema has experienced a quiet revolution: the proliferation of films by women. But their thought-provoking work has not yet received the attention it deserves. Reframing Italy fills this gap. The book introduces readers to films and documentaries by recognized women directors such as Cristina Comencini, Wilma Labate, Alina Marazzi, Antonietta De Lillo, Marina Spada, and Francesca Comencini, as well as to filmmakers whose work has so far been undeservedly ignored. Through a thematically based analysis supported by case studies, Luciano and Scarparo argue that Italian women filmmakers, while not overtly feminist, are producing work that increasingly foregrounds female subjectivity from a variety of social, political, and cultural positions. This book, with its accompanying video interviews, explores the filmmakers’ challenging relationship with a highly patriarchal cinema industry. The incisive readings of individual films demonstrate how women’s rich cinematic production reframes the aesthetic of their cinematic fathers, re-positions relationships between mothers and daughters, functions as a space for remembering women’s (hi)stories, and highlights pressing social issues such as immigration and workplace discrimination. This original and timely study makes an invaluable contribution to film studies and to the study of gender and culture in the early twenty-first century.

Author : Sabine Schrader
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869945
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinemas of Italian Migration written by Sabine Schrader and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy is more strongly influenced by the experiences of migrants than many other European countries. This includes an historically ongoing internal migration from the south to the north, which is strongly echoed in neo-realism; a mass emigration mainly to western Europe and North and South America that is connected with mafia films, among others, in Italy's collective imaginary; as well as a more recent immigration influx from the southwestern Mediterranean, which is dealt with at a film leve...

Author : Laura Di Bianco
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025306466X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wandering Women written by Laura Di Bianco and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking explores the work of contemporary Italian women directors from feminist and ecological perspectives. Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's marginality, the compelling films Wandering Women sheds light on tell stories of displacement and liminality that unfold through the act of walking in the city. The unusual emptiness of the cities that the nomadic female protagonists traverse highlights the absence of, and their wish for, life-sustaining communities. Laura Di Bianco contends that women's urban filmmaking—while articulating a claim for belonging and asserting cinematic and social agency—brings into view landscapes of the Anthropocene, where urban decay and the erasure of nature intersect with human alienation. Though a minor cinema, it is also a powerful movement of resistance against the dominant male narratives about the world we inhabit. Based on interviews with directors, Wandering Women deepens the understanding of contemporary Italian cinema while enriching the field of feminist ecocritical literature.

Author : Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331956675X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Motherhood on Screen written by Giovanna Faleschini Lerner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first scholarly analysis that considers the specificity of situated experiences of the maternal from a variety of theoretical perspectives. From “Fertility Day” to “Family Day,” the concept of motherhood has been at the center of the public debate in contemporary Italy, partly in response to the perceived crisis of the family, the economic crisis, and the crisis of national identity, provoked by the forces of globalization and migration, secularization, and the instability of labor markets. Through essays by an international cohort of established and emerging scholars, this volume aims to read these shifts in cinematic terms. How does Italian cinema represent, negotiate, and elaborate changing definitions of motherhood in narrative, formal, and stylistic terms? The essays in this volume focus on the figures of working mothers, women who opt for a child-free adulthood, single mothers, ambivalent mothers, lost mothers, or imperfect mothers, who populate contemporary screen narratives.

Author : Grace Russo Bullaro
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848761767
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Terrone to Extracomunitario written by Grace Russo Bullaro and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the emergence of immigration in the last thirty years, and the arrival into Italy of people of different races and colors, the bigotry, racism and pernicious stereotypes that have been present since the nation was created in 1861, especially those expressing the North-South divide, have acquired new relevance and stronger dimensions. Bigotry, racism and pernicious stereotypes, present in Italian society are examined through its cinema. This volume offers an informative, challenging and thought-provoking mosaic.

Author : Goffredo Polizzi
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800857357
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining the Italian South written by Goffredo Polizzi and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of southern Italy as a place of arrival for migrants with different origins and backgrounds have in recent years proliferated in Italian media as well as in contemporary Italian literature and cinema. The unprecedented perspective which presents the mezzogiorno as a place where people arrive, and not only as a place of departure, constitutes a major change in the collective imaginary on the region and fosters new engagements with its migratory histories. This book presents one of the first studies to focus entirely, through in-depth readings of a range of contemporary literary and cinematic texts, on the representation of contemporary migration to southern Italy, and on the concomitant changes in the tradition of representation of the region. Informed by translation theory, and by decolonial, queer and feminist critique, this innovative study zeroes in on the mutual construction of race, gender and sexuality, and on the translation and hybridization of languages and cultures at the southern border. By giving a rich and compelling account of texts which tell multiple stories of mobility from, to and through the South, this book traces the emergence of a transnational imaginary of the mezzogiorno which offers useful tools for an urgent reconfiguration of collective and individual identities.

Author : Vetri Nathan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781557537737
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marvelous Bodies written by Vetri Nathan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Stanford University, 2009.

Author : Stiliana Milkova Rousseva
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031499077
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natalia Ginzburg’s Global Legacies written by Stiliana Milkova Rousseva and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: