| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Flying: empire cinema's (aero)mobilities -- Returning: im/mobility and immigrant's nostalgia -- Fighting: wartime im/mobility in Harlem -- Romancing: postwar im/mobilities in Raffaello Matarazzo's melodramas -- Migrating: the pathology of im/mobility -- Vacationing: the rise of the travelling comedian -- Working: 'L'Italia è una repubblica democratica, fondata sul lavoro' -- Killing: criminal mobilities -- Exploring: Italian identity abroad -- Drilling: (auto)mobile satires of global petroculture |
| Summary |
Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Bordersexplores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility. Through close readings of a selection of films, Alberto Zambenedetti examines the concept of italianità (Italian-ness) as manifested in contexts related to migration, diaspora, exile, tourism, travel and their supporting infrastructures. In this wide-ranging study, the methodologies of Film Studies and the Mobilities Framework are combined to illuminate an undertheorised yet vital tradition in the history of the national cinema |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-226) and index |
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Filmography: pages 208-213 |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed February 27, 2023) |
| Subject |
Nazzari, Amedeo, 1907-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Sordi, Alberto, 1919-2003 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Nazzari, Amedeo, 1907-1979 fast |
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Sordi, Alberto, 1919-2003 fast |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
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Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning
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Emigration and immigration in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film criticism
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History
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Film criticism.
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Critiques cinématographiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474439886 |
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1474439888 |
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9781474439893 |
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1474439896 |
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