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Author Nathan, Vetri, 1980-

Title Marvelous Bodies.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : Purdue University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (267).
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Series Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; volume 70
Purdue studies in Romance literatures ; v. 70.
Contents Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Detourism: Italy's New Migrant Cinema; The Immigration Question; The Cultural Economy of Detourist Films; Multiculturalism vs. Hybridity; Framing Hybridity; Chapter One: Cultural Hybridity in Italy; Postcolonial Studies: A Search for Discrepant Experiences; Bhabha's Hybridity; Italy's Chronic Ambivalence-The Ghosts of Crises Past; The Centrality of Ambivalence; The Stereotype-as-Fetish; Stereotype-as-Fetish: The Importance of the Visible and of Repetition; Mimicry.
The Menace of Mimicry and the Reinscription of the Stereotype (or, Of Ministers and Orangutans)The Marvelous: Locating Hybridity on Screen; Postcolonial Studies and Italy-A Few Paths Forward; Chapter Two: Beyond Neorealism: The Cinematic Body-as-Nation; The Body-as-Nation; Neorealism Is Dead, Long Live Neorealism!; Containing Neorealism; The Centrality of Chronic Ambivalence in Post-Neorealist Film; The Realist and Humoristic Modes of Representation; Chapter Three: Ambivalent Geographies; Oneiric Spaces in Matteo Garrone's Terra di mezzo.
Meditalamerica: Lamerica and the Recuperation of Embodied HistoryThe Politics of Sentimentality: Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti; The Haptical Mediterranean: Crialese's Terraferma; Chapter Four: Ambivalent Desires: Desiring Gazes: Bhabha and Mulvey; The Volatile Sexual Politics of the Gaze: Pummarò and Lettere dal Sahara; Guess Who's Coming for an Italian Dinner?-The Palatable Immigrant in Bianco e nero; Marriage, Bengali-Style: Vittorio Moroni's Le ferie di Licu; Immigrant-as-Masquerade: Sugar-Coated Fantasy in Lezione di cioccolato; Chapter Five: Ambivalent Moralities.
Ambivalent Affect: Double-Visions in La sconosciuta and La doppia oraThose Damn Earrings: Latent Orientalism in Francesco Munzi's Il resto della notte; Radio as Koran: The War on Terror in Mohsen Melliti's Io, l'altro; Conclusion: Inside the Paradise of Marvelous Bodies; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index; About the book; About the author.
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Subject Motion pictures -- Italy -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures.
Italy.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Motion pictures -- Italy -- History -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.
Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.
Italians in motion pictures.
Italians in motion pictures.
Immigrants in motion pictures.
Immigrants in motion pictures.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781557537737 1557537739 (DLC) 2017023640 (OCoLC)953885986
ISBN 1612494889 (e-book)
9781612494883
9781557537737
1557537739