Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture /

This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular on visual materials from the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giuliani, Gaia (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : 2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Mapping Global Racisms,
Subjects:
Race.
Sex.
Motion pictures.
Race and Ethnicity Studies.
Gender Studies.
Audio-Visual Culture.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Constructions of Whiteness from Unification to Fascism
  • 1. Race, gender and the early colonial imaginary
  • 2. Race, gender and the fascist colonial imaginary
  • Part 2: Race and Gender in Italians' Post-fascist Cinematic Imaginary
  • 3. Black Venuses between colonial memory and global horizons
  • Part 3:Visualisation of Race, Visibilisation of Bodies and Concealment of Racism in Italian television, 1980s-2010s
  • 4. Visualising race in Italian public and private television in the 1980s-2010s
  • 5. Silent and exoticised, criminal or victim: the new racial paradigm
  • 6. Conclusions. .

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