Acting Across Borders: Mobility and Identity in Italian Cinema

by Alberto Zambenedetti

Book Overview

Studying the careers of popular actors Amedeo Nazzari and Alberto Sordi, Acting Across Borders explores the question of how Italian cinema from the 1930s to 1980s has considered human mobility. Through close readings of a selection of films, Alberto Zambenedetti examines the concept of italianit (Italian-ness) as manifested in contexts related to migration, diaspora, exile, tourism, travel and their supporting infrastructures. In this wide-ranging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147443987X
• ISBN13: 9781474439879
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"