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