From Terrone to Extracomunitario: New Manifestations of Racism in Contemporary Italian Cinema : Shifting Demographics and Changing Images in a Multi-cultural Globalized Society

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Grace Russo Bullaro
Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2010 - Literary Criticism - 410 pages
Bigotry, racism and pernicious stereotypes, present in Italian society are examined through its cinema. This volume offers an informative, challenging and thought-provoking mosaic of social problems which, in the wake of massive immigration, have become the hottest social and political issues in Italy. From Terrone to Extracomunitario: New Manifestations of Racism in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Shifting Demographics and Changing Images in a Multi-Cultural Globalized Society consists of fourteen chapters contributed by different scholars, introduced by a comprehensive introduction and offering an absorbing and provocative study of this aspect of society within Italy. Although racism is studied mainly through film, the historic and socio-economic context provide a frame and a backdrop that make the complexity of the "crisis" of national identity a compelling problem and provides a comprehensive understanding of the social and cultural changes of the country in the last forty years.
 

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the negotiation of interracial identity in
25
Dichotomy of expectations in Viscontis Rocco e i suoi fratelli
83
Italys racist episteme
101
Old and new definitions of race and ethnicity
147
Dangerous physiognomies
178
Identity at sea
219
Towards a discovery
240
The affect of ambivalence
264
The other images of immigrants in contemporary
280
Death by water? Constructing the other in Mellitis Io laltro
308
Southsouth
341
Ending ventriloquistic discourses and creating
366
Contributors
391
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