{"product_id":"italy-in-early-american-cinema-race-landscape-and-the-picturesque-paperback-softback-9780253221285","title":"Italy in Early American Cinema; Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253221285","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eItaly in Early American Cinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace, Landscape, and the Picturesque\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGiorgio Bertellini (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253221285\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 November 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e464 pages, 64 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bertellini situates early cinema within a broad geopolitical framework that 'calls for a reconsideration of race as a long-lasting visual form' and invites the film scholar to reexamine the medium's specificity. This makes Italy in Early American Cinema a seminal contribution to the field of cinema studies. June 2011, Vol. 31:2\"—\u003ci\u003eHistorical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The book is beautifully illustrated and its sources are often spectacular. Bertellini finds historical evidence where previous researchers found none. . . . Unlike much of recent film historical research, which remains confined to a rather empirical presentation of previously unknown documents, Bertellini wants to insert these archives into a rich interdisciplinary, long-term development. July - December 2010\"—\u003ci\u003eAltreitalie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Bertellini's Italy in Early American Cinema is simply an extraordinary achievement. . . . He has been meticulous and indefatigable in discovering a wealth of original historical source material and honed and re-honed the text into an exemplary model of lucid, sophisticated, critical historical analysis. Vol. 22, 2010\"—\u003ci\u003eFilm History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Bertellini's sophisticated interdisciplinary study addresses questions of race moving between Italy and America in the prehistory and early history of film. . . . Bertellini's persuasive thesis that identity-formation works, among other things, through the picturesque, provides a further explanation for our persistent need for a local aura of realist 'authenticity' in our idea of what Italian cinema should give us. July 2011\"—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Bertellini has done a great service not just to scholars of American film, but also to the Italian-American citizen, by concentrating on this overlooked, but rich vein of American culture. August 2010\"—\u003ci\u003eFra Noi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Italy in Early American Cinema is a terrific book: erudite, wide-ranging, and eye-opening. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the early cinema or in the complex history of Italy's relations to the wider world.\"—Donna R. Gabaccia, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Minnesota\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"To read Bertellini's superb book is to enter into an intense, rich, and intricately layered experience of Italian immigrant culture in the New York of the 1900's and 1910's.\"—Millicent Marcus, \u003ci\u003eYale University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Bertellini moves with ease through social history, art history, anthropology, and theories and histories of cinema. . . . His work offers an important and unique scholarly treatment . . . fascinating reading for Italians, Italian-Americans, and general readers interested in the history, culture, and ideology of immigration.\"—Marcia Landy, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Pittsburgh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiorgio Bertellini traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic aesthetic—the picturesque. Once associated with landscape painting in northern Europe, the picturesque came to symbolize Mediterranean Europe through comforting views of distant landscapes and exotic characters. Taking its cue from a picturesque stage backdrop from \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGodfather\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePart II,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eItaly in Early American Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e shows how this aesthetic was transferred from 19th-century American painters to early 20th-century American filmmakers. \u003ci\u003eItaly in Early American Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e offers readings of early films that pay close attention to how landscape representations that were related to narrative settings and filmmaking locations conveyed distinct ideas about racial difference and national destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Transatlantic Racial Culture and Modern Visual Reproductions\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Picturing Italy's Natural and Social Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e 1. Picturesque Mode of Difference\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Picturesque Italian South as Transnational Commodity\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Picture-Perfect America\u003cbr\u003e 3. Picturesque Views and American Natural Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e 4. Picturesque New York\u003cbr\u003e 5. Black Hands, White Faces \u003cbr\u003e 6. White Hearts\u003cbr\u003e 7. Performing Geography\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: \"A Mirror with a Memory\"\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Filmography\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525936541976,"sku":"9780253221285","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/italy-in-early-american-cinema-race-landscape-and-the-picturesque-paperback-softback-9780253221285","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}