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Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies - Volume 8, Issue 3, 2020

Volume 8, Issue 3

Volume 8, Issue 3, 2020

Language: English
  • Articles

      • Remaking national identity: Postcolonial discourses at the intersection of gender and race in

        https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00025_1

        In the context of global migrations, ‘new Italians’ have emerged in a group of mainstream TV series, among which (‘Anything can happen’) (RAI 1, 2015–18) stands out as the remake of the American This article argues that this process of cultural translation reveals tensions over the negotiation of national identity in Italian society, due to recent migrations and the submerged colonial past. Through the adoption of an intersectional approach, the analysis of the interracial relationship between Feven, an Eritrean-born woman, and Carlo will highlight that the postracial discourses underlying are superseded by postcolonial ones in the remake. I demonstrate that the Othering of Feven through sexualization and exoticization exposes the persistence of colonial stereotypes. However, the displacement of race onto gender preoccupations through the prism of postfeminism highlights the attempted ‘normalization’ of the Other, further engaging with the specificities of the Italian context through its association with religion.

    • From the margins: Alice Rohrwacher’s liminal adolescents

      https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00026_1

      To date, adolescents have occupied prominent positions in all three of Alice Rohrwacher’s feature films – from her debut () (2011a), to the critically acclaimed () (2014) and, finally, to her latest work () (2018). Being neither children nor adults, teenagers inhabit a biologically and ideologically ambiguous position within society, a precarious collocation that has often been referred to as ‘liminal’. In her films, Rohrwacher enhances her characters’ inherent liminality by (dis-)placing them, both physically and metaphorically, at the margins of society. However, it is their spatial and social exclusion and their position of subordination to power that allows them to identify alternative behaviours that oppose the dominant ideology within their social environments. Making use of the notions of marginality and liminality, this article explores the implications of the director’s employment of adolescent characters to critique Italian mainstream society.

    • Family stories in Italy and the United States: From to

      https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00027_1

      This article provides an analysis of the TV series (‘Anything could happen’) (RAI 1, 2015–18), the Italian adaptation of the American format (NBC, 2010–15). Assuming that every form of reproduction from an original text is always a ‘new story’, the main objective is to examine the narrative efficacy of the Italian adaptation both in terms of stylistic and expressive forms and cultural identity of the product. Through a qualitative analysis of the texts, I highlight the founding elements of the new story as compared to the original: a stronger enhancement of the family’s unity, an approach to everyday reality more in a private perspective and a cultural reworking of the female characters. I argue that is an effective adaptation, since it succeeds in giving the story a specific Italian identity (the value of family and motherhood), and in taking from innovative forms of storytelling with respect to the Italian narrative tradition.

    • Defining problems and struggling to find solutions: Framing Roma people in Italian news websites

      https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms_00028_1

      This article employs a quantitative content analysis of news stories (=600) to compare how six websites of Italian national newspapers of different political orientations framed Roma people during the campaign for the 2018 Italian general election and in the six months following the formation of the government coalition between the far-right Northern League party and the Five Star Movement. Drawing from framing theory and, in particular, looking at diagnostic and prognostic frames and sources interviewed and quoted, the article shows that when talking about the Roma community, a clear ideological divide between right-wing and progressive newspapers emerged. In a trend that follows the shifting Italian political landscape, news outlets that are historically considered as centrist gave prominence almost exclusively to stories about the removal of Roma camps, evictions and arrests while neglecting the coverage of programmes that would support and help the Roma community.

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