Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality
Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, "Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality "
English | ISBN: 1802077219 | 2023 | 216 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | ISBN: 1802077219 | 2023 | 216 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality puts gender at the centre of cinematic representations of contemporary transnational Italian identities. It offers an intersectional feminist analysis of the ways in which transnational migration has been represented, understood, and constructed in the contemporary cinema of Italy. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hospitality and in dialogue with postcolonial and decolonial theory, queer studies, and feminist critiques, the six chapters of the book focus on a series of exemplary fiction films from the last twenty years, which both reflect and shape the nation’s responses to the growing presence of transnational migrants in Italian society. The book shows how questions of gender, sexual difference, and reproductivity have been central to Italian filmmakers’ approaches to stories of mobility and displacement. Gender is also enmeshed in the rhetoric and poetic of hospitality that filmmakers propose as a critical framework to condemn Italian border policies and politics.
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