A Black Commedia All'italiana?: Untold Postcolonial Awareness in Italian Cinema, (Hardcover)

<p><b>This book centralizes four <i>commedie all'italiana</i>, 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<i> italiano medio </i>(the standard Italian) protagonists and increasingly centralizes Black subjectivity.</b> </p><p>Combining 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<i> italiano medio</i>. Before Postcolonial Theory became an academic discipline, these films offered critique on the colonial mindset displayed by the protagonists, by increasingly centralizing Black subjectivity. </p><p>The 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.</p>

• A Black Commedia All'italiana?: Untold Postcolonial Awareness in Italian Cinema, (Hardcover)
• Author: Linde M E Luijnenburg
• ISBN: 9798216450498
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2027-03-04
• Page Count: 240