Acting Across Borders

ISBN-13: 9781474439862 / Twarda / 2021 / 256 str.

Alberto Zambenedetti

Opis

Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores 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.

Spis treści

LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: ACTING ACROSS BORDERS; PART ONE: AMEDEO NAZZARI; Introduction to Part One: Amedeo Nazzari’s Many Im/mobilities; Chapter 1: Flying: Empire Cinema’s (Aero)Mobilities; Chapter 2: Returning: Im/mobility and Immigrant’s Nostalgia; Chapter 3: Fighting: Wartime Im/mobility in Harlem; Chapter 4: Romancing: Postwar Im/mobilities in Raffaello Matarazzo’s Melodramas; Chapter 5: Migrating: The Pathology of Im/mobility; Conclusion: Driving the Flâneuse: Le notti di Cabiria; PART TWO: ALBERTO SORDI; Introduction to Part Two: Alberto Sordi’s Comic Mobilities; Chapter 1: Vacationing: The Rise of the Travelling Comedian; Chapter 2: Working: ‘L’Italia è una Repubblica Democratica, fondata sul lavoro’; Chapter 3: Killing: Criminal Mobilities; Chapter 4: Exploring: Italian Identity Abroad; Chapter 5: Drilling: (Auto)Mobile Satires of Global Petroculture; Conclusion: Driving Across (Screen) Borders; FILMOGRAPHY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX