{"pk":40675,"title":"“They are as we once were”: Trope of Resemblance in Early Italian Cinema of Immigration (1990-2005)","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This article examines the response of Italian cinema in the 1990s and early 2000s to the phenomenon of mass immigration from the global south. It specifically focuses on the invocation of neorealism in order to mobilize a trope of semblance which compares new immigrants with Italian emigrants of previous generations, stating “they are as we once were.” However, the actual statistical record shows this trope to be a sleight of hand, a misremembering based on historical erasures that are so ingrained in Italian culture as to go unnoticed, and which feed upon long standing discriminatory hierarchies between the North and the South.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Southern Question, Postcolonial Cinema, Immigration, Accented Cinema, Subaltern Studies"}],"section":"Vol.7: Moving Images","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1rz471h3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"L. Avy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Valladares","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Berkeley","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2016-07-01T16:12:59Z","date_accepted":"2016-07-01T16:12:59Z","date_published":"2017-12-28T16:17:25Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40675/galley/30521/download/"}]}