The Cinemas of Italian Migration

The Cinemas of Italian Migration PDF Author: Sabine Schrader
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443869945
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
Italy is more strongly influenced by the experiences of migrants than many other European countries. This includes an historically ongoing internal migration from the south to the north, which is strongly echoed in neo-realism; a mass emigration mainly to western Europe and North and South America that is connected with mafia films, among others, in Italy's collective imaginary; as well as a more recent immigration influx from the southwestern Mediterranean, which is dealt with at a film leve...