From Terrone to Extracomunitario: New Manifestations of Racism in Contemporary Italian Cinema : Shifting Demographics and Changing Images in a Multi-cultural Globalized SocietyGrace Russo Bullaro Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2010 - 410 pagine Bigotry, racism and pernicious stereotypes, present in Italian society are examined through its cinema. This volume offers an informative, challenging and thought-provoking mosaic of social problems which, in the wake of massive immigration, have become the hottest social and political issues in Italy. From Terrone to Extracomunitario: New Manifestations of Racism in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Shifting Demographics and Changing Images in a Multi-Cultural Globalized Society consists of fourteen chapters contributed by different scholars, introduced by a comprehensive introduction and offering an absorbing and provocative study of this aspect of society within Italy. Although racism is studied mainly through film, the historic and socio-economic context provide a frame and a backdrop that make the complexity of the "crisis" of national identity a compelling problem and provides a comprehensive understanding of the social and cultural changes of the country in the last forty years. |
Sommario
the negotiation of interracial identity in | 25 |
Dichotomy of expectations in Viscontis Rocco e i suoi fratelli | 83 |
Italys racist episteme | 101 |
Old and new definitions of race and ethnicity | 147 |
Dangerous physiognomies | 178 |
Identity at sea | 219 |
Towards a discovery | 240 |
The affect of ambivalence | 264 |
The other images of immigrants in contemporary | 280 |
Death by water? Constructing the other in Mellitis Io laltro | 308 |
Southsouth | 341 |
Ending ventriloquistic discourses and creating | 366 |
Contributors | 391 |
Parole e frasi comuni
African Amelio amoral familism Angelo Antonia Assane Australia become boat body brother camera Camorra Carabiniere characters Ciao Ciro Civico colonial contemporary Italian Cover Boy created discourse documentary Don Genna e i suoi fratelli economic ethnic extracomunitario fate ignoranti film foreign immigrant Gianni Amelio Giorgio Giovanni Giuseppe global Ioan Italian cinema Italian migrant Italian society Italy Italy’s La Repubblica La sconosciuta Ladro Lamerica language Le fate ignoranti Lega Nord Licu lives Luchino Visconti Mafia Mangiamele marginalized Maselli Massimo Matteo Michele Michele Placido Milano mother Mulatto Nadia Naples narrative national identity Neapolitan neorealist North Northern Northern League Özpetek political portrayed protagonist Pummarò Questione meridionale race racial racism reality relationship representation Rocco e i role Rome Sandro scene sequence Serra Sicilian Simone social South southern Italian Sperelli stereotypes story terrone Tornando a casa Trans viewer Visconti visual Wertmüller women Yousef