{"product_id":"9798216450498","title":"Black commedia all’italiana? Untold Postcolonial Awareness in Italian Cinema","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBlack commedia all’italiana?\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eUntold Postcolonial Awareness in Italian Cinema\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLinde M.E. Luijnenburg\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ Genres \/ Comedy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book centralizes four \u003ci\u003ecommedie all'italiana\u003c\/i\u003e, much acclaimed Italian comedy films of the immediate post-Second World War period (1952-1968), to illustrate a postcolonial critique that overtly ridicules the colonial mindset of the\u003ci\u003e italiano medio \u003c\/i\u003e(the standard Italian) protagonists and increasingly centralizes Black subjectivity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining perspectives from Italian Studies, Postcolonial Theory, and Film Studies, the author illustrates how this 'Black Other' becomes a crucial figure for the articulation of the comic figure of the\u003ci\u003e italiano medio\u003c\/i\u003e. Before Postcolonial Theory became an academic discipline, these films offered critique on the colonial mindset displayed by the protagonists, by increasingly centralizing Black subjectivity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe construction of an Italian identity in these films is strongly linked to the past-the Italian colonial undertakings; the present-the challenging years of the Reconstruction of a country that has lost the Second World War; and the future-as these films foreshadow the current socio-political crises many European nation-states find themselves in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLinde M.E. Luijnenburg\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Cultural Histories of Migration and Coloniality in the Faculty of Humanities and Europese studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 March 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798216450498\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e240\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331271721100,"sku":"9798216450498","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9798216450498","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}