Migrant anxieties : Italian cinema in a transnational frame
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Migrant anxieties : Italian cinema in a transnational frame
（New directions in national cinemas）
Indiana University Press, c2019
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Includes filmography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-248) and index
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Description
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. Aine 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. After 1989: Projecting the Balkans
2. Traffic from the East: Gender, Labor, and Biopolitics
3. African Immigration in the 1990s
4. Migration, Masculinity, and Italy's New Urban Geographies
5. Imagining an Expanded Mediterranean Borderscape
6. Living with Difference: From Noir to Melodrama
Afterword: Accented and Transnational Filmmaking in Italy
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
