No. 17 (2021): Cinema, Migration, and the US

Edited by Elisa Bordin and Simone Francescato

Published: 2021-06-18

Foreword

Cinema, Migration, and the US: An Introduction

Elisa Bordin, Simone Francescato
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Articles: Special Section

On Westerns and Settler Migration: A Reading of “Meek’s Cutoff” by Kelly Reichardt

Elisa Bordin
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Adaptation as Emigration: Different Paths to Americanization in Miljenko Jergović’s “Buick Rivera” and Goran Rušinović’s Film Adaptation

Marija Bradaš, Enrico Davanzo
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“I’m Here Because I Didn’t Want to Be There”: Miloš Forman’s and Ivan Passer’s Reflections on Being in Exile in the US

Tiziana D’Amico
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On ‘Not Being Nothing’: Post-ironic Melodrama in James Gray’s “The Immigrant”

Simone Francescato
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Bridging the Absence: Jonas Mekas’s Hybrid Cinema

Angelo Grossi
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And What About Children?: Representations of Infant Migration in Latino/a Cinema

Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo
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Shaping Stereotypes in a Space of Absence: A Linguistic Analysis of Wayne Wang’s “Chan Is Missing”

Dora Renna
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From the Search for the American Dream to the Journey Back to Southern Roots: Cinematic Representations of Black Migrations

Anna Scacchi
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Terrorists on Screen, Actors on Stage: Stereotyping Arabs and the Cinema Industry in Contemporary Arab-American Theatre

Cinzia Schiavini
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Migrating Environmental Paradigms in Italian American Cinema: “Protecting New Orleans/Saving Venice” by Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno

Sabrina Vellucci
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Reviews - special section

The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America. Giorgio Bertellini

Rebecca Bauman
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Napoli/New York/Hollywood. La storia dell’emigrazione artistica italiana che ha cambiato il cinema americano e l’immagine degli italiani negli USA. Giuliana Muscio

Valerio Massimo De Angelis
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Articles (general section) - English language and linguistics

Pointing in Science: An Analysis of Body and Linguistic Deixis in Nobel Lectures with PowerPoint Slides

Silvia Cavalieri
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Towards a ‘COOPING’ Model for the Investigation of Gamers’ Online Conversations in English

Pietro Luigi Iaia
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Showcasing Motorbikes and Sewing Machines: Promotional Language on Husqvarna Websites

Jessica Jane Nocella, Federico Corradini
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“We Work Hard, We Play Hard!”—Fictional Gayspeak in the Italian Dubbing of “The Simpsons”: A Queer Audiovisual Translation Study

Davide Passa
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Constructing National Identity in Men vs Women’s Magazines: A Case Study from the USA

Angela Zottola, Virginia Zorzi
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Articles (general section) - American language, literature, and culture

Il morbo della coincidenza. Una lettura inattuale di “Nemesi” di Philip Roth

Mike Belingheri
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The Art of Coming-in-this-World: On Sylvia Plath’s “Elm”

Amélie Doche
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Elogio della piromania. Risposta all’intervento di Giovanni Bottiroli “Fondamentalismo americano. L’attacco alle statue, al cinema, alla letteratura” pubblicato nel numero 16 (2020) di Iperstoria

Fiorenzo Iuliano
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Displacing the American Dream in Mat Johnson’s “Drop”

Agnese Marino
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Reviews

Essentials for Blended Learning: A Standards-Based Guide. Jared Stein and Charles R. Graham

Giorgia Andreolli
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Contaminazioni. Un approccio interdisciplinare. A cura di Valentina Romanzi, Alessandro Secomandi e Danilo Serra

Serena Demichelis
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L’uomo diventato donna e altri racconti. Sherwood Anderson (a cura di Anna De Biasio)

Fiorenzo Iuliano
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Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures. André Brock

Valentina Romanzi
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