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Italy and the MilitaryThe Black American Soldier: Italian Cinematic Reflections

Italy and the Military: The Black American Soldier: Italian Cinematic Reflections [This chapter explores the cinematic representations of black American soldiers in Italian postwar cinema. Through an examination of films and broader contemporary visual culture, the chapter analyzes the portrayal of American soldiers and officers of Italian and African heritage in the Italian cultural imaginary. They point out that as difficult and heated conversations around racial politics are taking place in the United States and despite the image of Italy as offering a respite from those prejudices experienced in America, the representations of Italian and African American military personnel, nevertheless, stage oppositional masculinities, which are in the service of constructing Italian national identity (in terms of race, language, ethnicity).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italy and the MilitaryThe Black American Soldier: Italian Cinematic Reflections

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Roveri, Mattia
Greene, Shelleen; Roveri, Mattia
Italy and the Military — Dec 23, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-57160-3
Pages
347 –363
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-57161-0_16
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[This chapter explores the cinematic representations of black American soldiers in Italian postwar cinema. Through an examination of films and broader contemporary visual culture, the chapter analyzes the portrayal of American soldiers and officers of Italian and African heritage in the Italian cultural imaginary. They point out that as difficult and heated conversations around racial politics are taking place in the United States and despite the image of Italy as offering a respite from those prejudices experienced in America, the representations of Italian and African American military personnel, nevertheless, stage oppositional masculinities, which are in the service of constructing Italian national identity (in terms of race, language, ethnicity).]

Published: Dec 23, 2020

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