O'Healy, Áine,

Migrant anxieties : Italian cinema in a transnational frame / Áine O'Healy. - Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (x, 255 pages). - New directions in national cinemas .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- After 1989: projecting the Balkans -- Traffic from the east: gender, labor, and biopolitics -- African immigration in the 1990s -- Migration, masculinity, and Italy's new urban geographies -- Imagining an expanded Mediterranean borderscape -- Living with difference: from noir to melodrama -- Afterword: accented and transnational filmmaking in Italy.

During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country's shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades.



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Emigration and immigration in motion pictures.
Immigrants in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History--Italy--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--Italy--21st century.


Electronic Books.

PN1995 / .M547 2019