The main aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of language change and language
management in Italy and France in order to situate the competing factors and actors which …

With Italy under Napoleonic rule at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the antiquarian
topic of anti-romanism became a pillar of the Italian nation-building process and, in turn, was …

Drawing on a range of canonical and non-canonical literary, cinematic and social scientific
texts produced in post-Unification Italy, Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy is an …

As the first decade of the twenty-first century draws to a close, Italy is in the process of
defining its “new” multiracial and multicultural society. The country's history of emigration is …

This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the
turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to …

In the early decades of the twentieth-century, Main Street was the heart of Los Angeles's
Mexican immigrant community. It was also the hub for an extensive, largely forgotten film …

Interdisciplinarity has been one of film studies' major strengths. In the last decade,
philosophical inquiry—and ethical inquiry in particular—has emerged as a central focus for …

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In Public Spectacles of Violence Rielle Navitski examines the proliferation of cinematic and
photographic images of criminality, bodily injury, and technological catastrophe in early …

This book identifies a strand of what it calls" Accidental Orientalism" in narratives by Italians
who found themselves in Ottoman Egypt and Anatolia in the late nineteenth and early …