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"Italy is one of the most recent immigratory destinations in Europe, having long been one of the continent's most important sources of emigration. Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean, the Italian peninsula is a crossroads of complex transnational movements and represents a unique and dynamic context for the study of contemporary migration and its representation through the diverse channels of media, literature and film. The product of a two-year interdisciplinary research project into representations of migration to Italy, this volume brings together scholarly contributions from the fields of migration studies, linguistics, media, literature and film studies as well as essays by practitioners and activists. It provides both a multi-faceted snapshot of how diverse representations of immigration capture experiences and affect decision-making dynamics and an in-depth study of how media, literature and cinema contribute to the public perception of migrants within the destination culture."--Page 4 of cover
Invaders, aliens and criminals: metaphors and spaces in the media definition of migration and security policies / Marco Binotto -- The journalistic construction of 'Emergenza Lampedusa': the Arab spring and the 'Landings' ussie in media representations of migration / Marco Bruno -- The image of Italy and immigrants to Italy in the media: a destination or place of damnation? / Mahmoud Zidan -- Media and migration: some lingustic reflections / Federico Faloppa -- Framing migration: news images and (meta-)communicative messages / Andrea Pogliano -- The silence of migrants: the underrepresentation of migrant voices in the Italian mainstream media / Gabriela Jacomella -- Training journalists on immigration: experiences and reflections / Anna Meli -- Ethnicity and organizational processes in 'mixed' media: the case of Yalla Italia / Eugénie Saitta -- Beyonh hybridization: metaphors and new visions in 'migrant literature' in Italian / Grazia Biorci -- Narrative strategies, literary imaging and reflections on identity: constructing a narrative community in Italy / Nora Moll -- 'Skin memories': expressions of corporeality in recent trans-national writing in Italian / Emma Bond -- The decentred gaze of postcolonical literature on Italians past and present / Maria Grazia Negro -- New postcolonial art forms: Timira as multi-genre object between cinema and literature / Daniele Comberiati and Linde Luijnenburg -- The postcolonical afterlife of Primo Levi / Derek Duncan -- Migrant writing as (self-)translation: the transnational trajectory of Giose Rimanelli / Loredana Polezzi -- Imagined journeys: Italian directors and immigration / Vito Zagarrio -- Accented voices in contemporary Italian cinema / Guido Bonsaver -- Federico Bondi's Mar nero: channeling the geographic unconscious / Millicent Marcus -- Migration told through noir conventions in La sconosciuta and Gomorra / Paolo Russo -- Nigerian migrants, Nollywood videos and the emergence of an 'anti-humanitarian' representation of migration in Italian cinema / Alessandro Jedlowski -- Witnessing history, recounting suffering: the documentary project of Andrea Segre / Aine O'Healy -- Roaming to Rome: archiving and filming migrant voices in Italy / Alessandro Triulzi -- Notes on contributors -- Index of names