… conversed on film and politics with, among others, Carla Mazzio, Magda Teter, and,
especially, Timothy Rood, who generously offered countless references to picturesque aesthetics …

… The first part of Italy in Early American Cinema is devoted to establishing the long iconic
tradition of the picturesque … Italy and of Southern Italians as a stereotypical social group within its …

… Bertellini's Italy in Early American Cinema … Italy and Italians in early American movies
developed historically. As a result, in addition to the cinema, Bertellini investigates such pre-cinema …

… also examines the Italian-American cultural scene in New York and cinema-going in … of
early Italian epic films, Neapolitan films, and American films about Italians (such as The Italian) …

… of American cinema, than that of Italian historical epics. … of color, of racial “others,” in Italian
cinema. It allows a … a more vibrant, more complete, more beautiful view of that which the living …

… of Italian immigrants into American racial discourse. In … stylistic paradigms of early American
cinema by comparing … Until this point, he is portrayed as a picturesque and naive character, …

… depicting the reality of Italian immigration but also including the picturesque portrayal of …
For tourists, Venice is a place for lovers who enjoy the picturesque scenery. The Venice …

… in relation to the making of American films in Italy, a sort of filmic … and racial implications:
while the Italian diaspora in Latin … Broadhead argues, the love for “beautiful Italy” coincided with …

… in Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the … problems with filming the chariot
races and desert scenes. A … , the beautiful gardener's boy, is the prototype of the American …

… the colonial aesthetic tradition of the picturesque and its haptic corollary, the stroll, as a
mode for managing the Italian landscape. It … of textual reading to American cinema. Although …