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italian studies Cinema is the Strongest Weapon
Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy Lorenzo Fabbri Looking at Italy’s national film industry under the rule of Benito Mussolini and in the era that followed, Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon examines how cinema was harnessed as a political tool by both the reigning fascist regime and those who sought to resist it. Covering a range of canonical works alongside many of their neglected contemporaries, this book explores film’s mutable relationship to the apparatuses of state power and racial capitalism. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS December 2023 49 b&w illus. 320pp 9781517910846 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Italian Political Cinema
Figures of the Long ’68 Mauro Resmini Centered on emblematic figures in Italian cinema, it maps the currents of antagonism and repression that defined this period in the country’s history. Resmini explores how film imagined the possibilities, obstacles, and pitfalls that characterized the Italian long ’68 as a moment of crisis and transition. From workerism to autonomist Marxism to feminism, this book further expands the debate on political cinema UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS January 2023 54 b&w illus. 320pp 9781517911386 £23.99 PB now £16.79
The World Refugees Made
Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy Pamela Ballinger Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize (AHA) Ballinger explores Italy's remaking in light of the loss of a wide range of territorial possessions in Africa and the Balkans (colonies, protectorates, and provinces), the repatriation of Italian nationals from those territories, and the integration of these "national refugees" into a country devastated by war and overwhelmed by foreign displaced persons from Eastern Europe. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS November 2023 9 b&w hts., 3 maps 336pp 9781501770111 £27.99 PB now £19.59
Wandering Women Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmaking Laura Di Bianco
Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's marginality, the compelling films Wandering Women sheds light on tell stories of displacement and liminality that unfold through the act of walking in the city. Based on interviews with directors, Wandering Women deepens the understanding of contemporary Italian cinema while enriching the field of feminist ecocritical literature. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: New Directions in National Cinemas December 2022 77 b&w illus. 242pp 9780253064653 £21.99 PB now £15.39
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Allied Encounters
The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy Marisa Escolar American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize These texts uniquely explore AngloAmerican and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension July 2019 248pp 9780823284498 £35.00 PB now £24.50
Arte Programmata
Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy Lindsay Caplan Showcasing the ingenuity of Italy’s earliest computer-based art, this study highlights its distinguishing characteristics while also exploring concurrent developments across the globe. Centered on the relationships between art, technology, and politics, Arte Programmata considers an important antecedent to the digital age. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS October 2022 47 b&w illus. and 8 color plates 312pp 9781517909956 £27.99 PB now £19.59
Clocking Out
The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema Karen Pinkus Challenges readers to think about labor, cinema, and machines as they are intertwined in complex ways in Italian cinema of the early ’60s. Drawing on critical theory and archival research, this book asks what kinds of fractures we might exploit for living otherwise, for resisting traditional narratives, and for anticapitalism. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS March 2020 152pp 9781517908553 £19.99 PB now £13.99
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Contesting Race and Citizenship
Youth Politics in the Black Mediterranean Camilla Hawthorne An original study of Black politics and varieties of political mobilization in Italy. Hawthorne focuses on the ways Italians of African descent have become entangled with processes of re-defining the legal, racial, cultural, and economic boundaries of Italy and by extension, of Europe itself. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS July 2022 23 b&w hts., 1 map, 1 chart 324pp 9781501762291 £24.99 PB now £17.49
Empire's Mobius Strip
Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention Stephanie Malia Hom American Association for Italian Studies Book Prizes Hom investigates how mobile populations were perceived to be major threats to Italian colonization, and how the state's mechanisms of control have resurfaced in today's refugee crisis. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS September 2019 20 b&w hts., 4 maps 270pp 9781501739903 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Feminism, Violence, and Representation in Modern Italy "We are Witnesses, Not Victims" Giovanna Parmigiani
Based on nearly two years of fieldwork among feminist activists, Parmigiani traces the use of the word "femminicidio" (or "femicide") as a tool to mobalize Italian feminists, particularly the Union of Women in Italy (UDI). She provides a searing consideration of the ways in which representations of violence and the politics of this representation are shaping the future of women in Italy and beyond. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: New Anthropologies of Europe September 2019 9 b&w illus. 280pp 9780253043382 £36.00 PB now £25.20
Hacked Transmissions
Rules, Paper, Status
Maps the transformation of media activism from the seventies to the present day. Provides a rare and timely glimpse into a key activist/media project of the 21st century. Contributes to debates in a range of fields, including media and communication studies, anthropology, science and technology studies, social movements studies, sociology, and cultural theory. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Taking migrants' interactions with immigration regimes as its starting point, this book sheds light on the productive nature of legal and bureaucratic encounters and the consequences they produce. Situated in an immigration regime that is both exclusionary and flexible, Working the Gap argues that successfully navigating Italian immigration bureaucracy requires culturally specific behavior. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
March 2020 5 280pp 9781517903268 £22.99 PB now £16.09
June 2018 192pp 9781503606494 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Technology and Connective Activism in Italy Alessandra Renzi
Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy Anna Tuckett
South of Somewhere
Migrant Anxieties
Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame Aine O’Healy During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country’s shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants over the course of three decades. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: New Directions in National Cinemas January 2019 30 b&w illus. 268pp 9780253037183 £27.99 PB now £19.59
Richard Demarco
Wine, Food, and the Soul of Italy Robert V. Camuto South of Somewhere begins and ends in American writer Robert Camuto’s maternal ancestral town of Vico Equense, Italy—a tiny paradise south of Naples on the Sorrento Peninsula. Camuto’s fine-grained storytelling in this series of portraits takes us beyond the usual objective views of viniculture and into the elusive and magical world of Italian “South-ness.” UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: At Table October 2021 22 photographs 280pp 9781496225962 £21.99 PB now £15.39
The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy
The Italian Connection Laura Leuzzi, Stephen Partridge & Elaine Shemilt Since the 1960s Richard Demarco has had a pivotal role in the production and promotion of the visual and performing arts in Scotland. This publication is the main outcome of the eponymous research project, Richard Demarco The Italian Connection and uncovers and retraces many stories and reassesses how Demarco promoted Italian visual and performing arts in Scotland and Scottish art in the Italian cultural context. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Richard Drake
What drives terrorists to glorify violence? In The Revolutionary Mystique and Terrorism in Contemporary Italy, Richard Drake seeks to explain the origins of Italian terrorism and the role that intellectuals played in valorizing the use of violence for political or social ends. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2021 7 b&w photos 254pp 9780253057136 £21.99 PB now £15.39
November 2022 25 color illus., 55 b&w illus. 144pp 9780861967537 £27.99 HB now £19.59
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other voices of italy series Islam and Me
AntoloGaia
Narrating a Diaspora Shirin Ramzanali Fazel Edited by Simone Brioni
Queering the Seventies, A Radical Trans Memoir Porpora Marcasciano
Translated by Francesco Pascuzzi & Sandra Waters In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 1970s, yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
When Fazel moved to Italy from Somalia as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion–where, even today, she and her children must seemingly prove they are Italian. Fazel tells her story and shares the experiences of other Muslim women living in Italy, revealing the wide variety of Muslim identities and the common prejudices they encounter. Available from CAP from 1st July 2023 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2023 364pp 9781978835788 £14.99 PB now £10.49
August 2023 196pp 9781978835825 £14.99 PB now £10.49
Oh, Serafina!
The Round Dance
A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love Giuseppe Berto
A Novel Carmine Abate
Translated by Michelangelo La Luna In his first novel, acclaimed author Carmine Abate transforms his ItaloAlbanian (Arbëresh) hometown of Carfizzi, Calabria, into a magical realist wonderland. The Round Dance is a unique piece of multicultural literature that was named by publishing house Mondadori as one of the one hundred greatest Italian novels of the twentieth century. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Translated Gregory Conti Newly translated into English, Giuseppe Berto's charming 1973 novel was one of the first works of Italian literature to deal with ecological themes while also questioning the destructive effects of industrial capitalism and the ways our society defines madness. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS August 2023 140pp 9781978835740 £14.99 PB now £10.49
October 2023 254pp 9781978837430 £14.99 PB now £10.49
The Outcast
When Things Happen
A Novel Luigi Pirandello
A Novel Angelo Cannavacciuolo
Translated by Bradford A. Masoni The Outcast is an early masterwork from Nobel Prize–winning Italian author Luigi Pirandello that combines elements of Zolaesque naturalism with emerging modernist aesthetics. This fresh English translation, the first in nearly one hundred years, showcases Pirandello's deft play with language. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Translated by Gregory Pell Presents a panoramic view of Neapolitan society, revealing a city of extreme contrasts, with a glamorous center ringed by suburban squalor. Above all, it is a psychologically nuanced portrait of a man struggling to locate what he values in life, and the poor vulnerable child who helps him find it. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2023 314pp 9781978836495 £14.99 PB now £10.49
October 2023 272pp 9781978837102 £14.99 PB now £10.49 30% DISCOUNT CODE: ASMI23
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