Teacher
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DE FRANCESCHI LEONARDO
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COUNTER-HISTORIES OF A PLURAL ITALY. NAPLES AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, FROM “CHILDREN OF THE MADONNA” TO THE STRUGGLES OF “SECOND GENERATIONS”
When thinking to the Naples as seen by Italian film and TV-series we immediately think to a Neapolitanness recognizable, a fabric interwoven by some imaginary places and some reference faces and authors, from Totò to Eduardo, via Massimo Troisi. Yet there is also a denied, a hidden, a subaltern Naples, a city that shows the living traces of a past made of encounter, domination, contamination, that bring us back to the relationships with the Mediterranean countries, with Africa, but also with African American experience, from guerre de course to colonialism, from migrations to multicultural society. We will analyze some titles that contributed to give shape and visibility to this plural Naples, ideally extending to its hinterland, from the Neapolitan episode of Paisà to The Vice of Hope (Edoardo De Angelis, 2018), via Il nero (Giovanni Vento, 1967), uncovering in an antiessentialist lens the condition of “black children of the Madonna”.
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Filmography (feature films):
Roberto Rossellini, Paisà, ep. Napoli, 1946 Luigi Zampa, Campane a martello, 1949 Francesco De Robertis, Il mulatto, 1950 Giovanni Vento, Il nero, 1966 Guido Lombardi, Là-bas. Educazione criminale, 2011 Edoardo De Angelis, Il vizio della speranza, 2019
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