Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame

by Áine O'Healy

Book Overview

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. ine O'Healy traces a phenomenology of anxiety that is not only present at the sociopolitical level but also interwoven...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253037182
• ISBN13: 9780253037183
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher