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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 anti-essentialist lens the condition of “black children of the Madonna”.
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Suggestive filmography (subject to revision): Raggio di luce, o Episodio della guerra di Tripoli (Cines, 1911) Sulle orme dei nostri pionieri (Istituto Luce, 1936) Scipione l’africano (Carmine Gallone, 1937) Emigrantes (Aldo Fabrizi, 1949) Angelo tra la folla (Leonardo De Mitri, 1950) Akiko (Luigi Filippo D’Amico, 1961) I due nemici (Guy Hamilton, 1961) Il carabiniere a cavallo (Carlo Lizzani, 1961) L’oro di Roma (Carlo Lizzani, 1961) Faustina (Luigi Magni, 1968) Appunti per un’Orestiade africana (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1970) Nell’anno del signore (Luigi Magni, 1970) L’altra donna (Peter Del Monte, 1981)
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