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Performing post-migration cinema in Italy: Corazones de Mujer by K. Kosoof

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2016

Federica Mazzara
Federica Mazzara*
Affiliation:
Department of Italian, University College London, London, UK
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∗Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Following consideration of the most common representations of migrants in Italian cinema, where they are often portrayed as victimised and minor subjects, this article analyses a film by Davide Sordella and Pablo Benedetti, Corazones de Mujer (2008) as a ‘post-migration alternative’. This film considers a different way of depicting ‘foreigners’, and addresses the complex issues of gender and sexuality as they emerge at the interface between Western and Arab cultures. Within the conceptual framework of Judith Butler's ‘gender performativity’ and Rosi Braidotti's ‘nomadic subject’, this article aims to suggest an alternative way of representing migrants in Italian cinema as agents of social and gender transgressions.

Keywords

Italian cinema of migrationpost-migrationgender performanceCorazones de Mujernomadic subjects
Type
Articles
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Modern Italy , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 41 - 53
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Copyright © Association for the study of Modern Italy 

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