Equivocal Subjects

Between Italy and Africa -- Constructions of Racial and National Identity in the Italian Cinema

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Analysing the depiction of African Italian mixed-race subjects from the historical epics of the Italian silent "golden" era to the contemporary period, Equivocal Subjects engages the history of Italian nationalism and colonialism through theories of subject formation, ideologies of race, and postcolonial theory. Greene's approach also provides a novel interpretation of recent developments surrounding Italy's status as a major passage for immigrants seeking to enter the European Union. This book provides an original theoretical approach to the Italian cinema that speaks to the nation's current political and social climate.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-05-22
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt509 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781472535214

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INTRODUCTION Chapter One: From "Making Italians" to Envisioning Postcolonial ItalyChapter Two: Mixed-Race Relationships in the Italian Colonial and Postcolonial Imaginary...... Chapter Three: Negotiations of Interracial Identity and Citizenship in the Post-War Cinema and Beyond Chapter Four: Transatlantic Crossings: Representing Hierarchies of Whiteness in the Cinema of the Economic Miracle Chapter Five: Zumurrud in her Camera: Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Global South in Contemporary Italian Film CONCLUSIONFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Equivocal Subjects is an important and innovative piece of scholarship. It offers new and much needed insight into Italian cinema and its histories of race. Equally challenging perhaps is its insistence on 'Italy as a site of African diasporic identity formation.' Greene's focus on the mixed-race subject revises the history of Italian cinema, and suggestively re-routes the contours of overly familiar geographies of racial difference.