Migrant Anxieties - (New Directions in National Cinemas) by Aine O'Healy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>1. This book stands out as unique in both its subject and approach. There are only a handful of books on post-1980 Italian cinema, and none that perform close analyses of those works. The author's approach challenges the prevalent wisdom - that there is no significant Italian cinema after Fellini - by weaving together conversations on numerous significant issues including primarily: transnationalism, race, and gender. </p> <p>2. <em>Migrant Anxieties</em> uses Italian films from the past 30 years to explore anxieties and concerns regarding migration and borderscapes. The topic is highly relevant to current global concerns regarding immigration and nationalism. </p> <p>3. This book demonstrates the adaptability of cinematic language and film genres as a way to explore a changing social landscape. It carefully shows the links between current anxieties and unresolved issues from Italy's past, particularly its history of emigration and colonization. </p> <p>4. The author is a well-known and highly respected scholar of Italian cinema.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, <i>Migrant Anxieties</i> explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country's shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades. Áine O'Healy traces a phenomenology of anxiety that is not only present at the sociopolitical level but also interwoven into the narrative strategies of over 30 films produced since 1990, throwing into sharp relief the interface between the local and the global in this transnational era. Starting with the representation of post-communist migrations to Italy from Eastern Europe and subsequent arrivals from Africa through the controversial frontier of Lampedusa, O'Healy explores topics as diverse as the configuration of migrant labor, affective surrogacy, Italian whiteness, and the legacy of Italy's colonial history. Showing how contemporary filmmaking practices in Italy are linked to changes in the broader media landscape, O'Healy analyzes the ways in which both Italian and migrant filmmakers are reimagining Italian society and remapping the nation's borderscape.</p></p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Áine O'Healy is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola Marymount University. She is editor (with Katarzyna Marciniak and Anikó Imre) of <i>Transnational Feminism in Film and Media</i>.</p>
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