Marvelous bodies : Italy's new migrant cinema /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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West Lafayette, IN :
Purdue University Press,
2017
West Lafayette, Indiana : [2017] |
| Series: | Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Series
Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 70 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Detourism: Italy's New Migrant Cinema
- The Immigration Question
- The Cultural Economy of Detourist Films
- Multiculturalism vs. Hybridity
- Framing Hybridity
- Chapter One: Cultural Hybridity in Italy
- Postcolonial Studies: A Search for Discrepant Experiences
- Bhabha's Hybridity
- Italy's Chronic Ambivalence-The Ghosts of Crises Past
- The Centrality of Ambivalence
- The Stereotype-as-Fetish
- Stereotype-as-Fetish: The Importance of the Visible and of Repetition
- Mimicry
- The Menace of Mimicry and the Reinscription of the Stereotype (or, Of Ministers and Orangutans)
- The Marvelous: Locating Hybridity on Screen
- Postcolonial Studies and Italy-A Few Paths Forward
- Chapter Two: Beyond Neorealism: The Cinematic Body-as-Nation
- The Body-as-Nation
- Neorealism Is Dead, Long Live Neorealism!
- Containing Neorealism
- The Centrality of Chronic Ambivalence in Post-Neorealist Film
- The Realist and Humoristic Modes of Representation
- Chapter Three: Ambivalent Geographies
- Oneiric Spaces in Matteo Garrone's Terra di mezzo
- Meditalamerica: Lamerica and the Recuperation of Embodied History
- The Politics of Sentimentality: Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti
- The Haptical Mediterranean: Crialese's Terraferma
- Chapter Four: Ambivalent Desires: Desiring Gazes: Bhabha and Mulvey
- The Volatile Sexual Politics of the Gaze: Pummarò and Lettere dal Sahara
- Guess Who's Coming for an Italian Dinner?-The Palatable Immigrant in Bianco e nero
- Marriage, Bengali-Style: Vittorio Moroni's Le ferie di Licu
- Immigrant-as-Masquerade: Sugar-Coated Fantasy in Lezione di cioccolato
- Chapter Five: Ambivalent Moralities
- Ambivalent Affect: Double-Visions in La sconosciuta and La doppia ora
- Introduction. Detourism: Italy's new migrant cinema
- Cultural hybridity in Italy
- Beyond neorealism: the cinematic body-as-nation
- Ambivalent geographies
- Ambivalent desires
- Ambivalent moralities
- Conclusion: inside the paradise of marvelous bodies
- Those Damn Earrings: Latent (?) Orientalism in Francesco Munzi's Il resto della notte
- Radio as Koran: The War on Terror in Mohsen Melliti's Io, l'altro
- Conclusion: Inside the Paradise of Marvelous Bodies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
- About the book
- About the author