Cultural Metamorphoses in Contemporary Italian Cinema

by Roberta Di Carmine

Overview

Cultural Metamorphoses in Contemporary Italian Cinema explores four different areas of study in contemporary Italian cinema: the migrants' social struggle, the decline of the middle class, the isolation of the elderly, and the existence of gender inequality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433142376
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	09/27/2018
Edition description:	New
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Roberta Di Carmine is Professor of Film Studies and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Film Minor at Western Illinois University. Raised and educated in Pescara, Italy, she received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Oregon and a master’s degree in foreign languages and literatures from West Virginia University. Her essays on film studies have appeared in Wide Screen, Dealing with Diversity, The Councilor: The Journal of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies, and A Companion to Film Comedy, among others. In 2011, she published Italy Meets Africa: Colonial Discourses in Italian Cinema.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments – Introduction – Cultural Plurality in Migrant Cinema: Io sono Li (Shun Li and the Poet, Andrea Segre 2011) – Economic Crisis and the Shift in Identity in Giorni e Nuvole (Days and Clouds, Silvio Soldini 2007) – Exposing Aging in Pranzo di Ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch, Gianni Di Gregorio 2008) – A Woman’s ‘Five Star Life’: Maria Sole Tognazzi’s Viaggio Sola (A Five Star Life, Maria Sole Tognazzi 2013) – Conclusion – Bibliography – Index.