Chinese migrants, morality and film ethics in Italian cinema

Zhang, Gaoheng

doi:10.1080/1354571x.2017.1321935

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“…A Century of Chinese People in Milan) was published in 2017, still with Becco Giallo. Although the keyword of the title, namely Chinamen, has traditionally approached negative connotations of Chinese migrants, especially in the North American context (Zhang 2019), and thus might appear as semantically ambiguous, the authors' intention is simply to underline that until the fifties Chinese migration to Italy consisted exclusively of men (Rocchi 2017, 142). As in the previous work, also Chinamen was published together with an animated book trailer containing the same title and a similar graphic layout compared to the other one.…”

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The life of Mario Tchou in the graphic novel La Macchina Zero. A transnational Sino-Italian scientist

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2023

Studi E Saggi

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The current contribution aims at describing some key aspects in Rocchi and Demonte’s graphic novel La Macchina Zero, published in 2021. This is Rocchi and Demonte’s third work narrating stories of Chinese migration to Italy, after Primavere e Autunni (2015) and Chinamen (2017). Differently from the first two graphic novels, La Macchina Zero gives back to collective memory a new glimpse on the history of Chinese in Italy, focusing on the role of Mario Tchou, a brilliant Sino-Italian electronic scientist, and his contribution both to the economic growth of the Olivetti enterprise and to the creation of one of the first new generation computers, ELEA 9003. The first part will highlight on the main events narrated in the graphic novel. After that, some specific considerations about the structure and style, semiotic aspects and communicative functions of La Macchina Zero will also be provided, also in comparison with the previous two works. The third paragraph will specifically focus on Mario Tchou, his life and his crucial contribution, as a transnational scientist, to the ascent of Olivetti worldwide.

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Section: Primavere E Autunni Chinamen and La Macchina Zero A Sino-ita...mentioning

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The life of Mario Tchou in the graphic novel La Macchina Zero. A transnational Sino-Italian scientist

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2023

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“…While these works attempt to offer positive representations of the Chinese community, they often fall into the trap of essentialism, reinforcing stereotypes and divisions (Pedone 2018). The lack of creative input by migrant communities is also a defining quality of recent Italian cinema when it comes to the representation of the Chinese community (Zhang 2017). Nevertheless, smaller participatory media, documentary and literary projects, like TG Multietnico, Ripeti con Me , Il Caleidoscopio: visioni interculturali/The Kaleidoscope: Intercultural Visions (Luciano Luongo, Ivan D'Alì, and Gianni Bianchi, 2011) and La città vista e vissuta dai pratesi di seconda generazione (Monash University, 2015), attempt to counter dominant narratives and representations often through the creative input and direction of second generations and young migrants.…”

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Ethnic enclave or transcultural edge? Reassessing the Prato district through digital mapping

2019

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Relations between Italy and other countries – such as China – are often imagined within a binary frame that essentialises national and ethnic communities and fails to recognise the complex transcultural ramifications of an increasingly globalising world. This is particularly problematic when studying those social and cultural spaces that Ilaria Vanni (2016) has described as transcultural edges. These are marginal spaces of transition and encounters between different cultures and societies, which have the potential to create new, innovative and productive ecosystems. We argue that one such space is Prato, an industrial town near Florence, well known for its textile district, and host to one of the largest Chinese communities in Europe. Significant academic attention has been devoted to the Chinese community in Prato, including studies of its social and economic impact on the host local community and the textile industry. Most of these studies tend to isolate the Chinese community from the ethnic complexity of the area, within a binary frame that fails to acknowledge the large presence of other migrant groups and the reciprocal permeability and transculturation between the Chinese community, the Italian community, and other ethnic groups. As part of a larger project, a group of scholars is currently digitally remapping Prato, to include quantitative and qualitative geolocalised information collected through a multidisciplinary method that includes ethnography, media analysis, translation studies, transcultural studies, and digital participatory action research. Through a brief description of the aims and characteristics of this research project, the paper will discuss the importance of rethinking the relationship between Italy and China, and between Italians and Chinese, within a more complex and nuanced transcultural frame.

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“…Cinema is a recognized cultural medium for analyzing human life and its basic moral attitudes (Zhang, 2017;Pippin, 2019;Saidovich et al, 2022). Besides providing meaning to a playful and recreational act, where the challenge to "learn to learn, to learn to live" takes on all its consistency, it prompts consideration of the value of interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships (Padva and Buchweitz, 2017).…”

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Romance cinema for debunking gender bias of non-egalitarian couple relationships in higher education

Morales-Romo,

Hernández-Serrano,

Morales-Romo

2023

Front. Educ.

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Romance cinema may recreate cisgender heterosexual couple representations by means of image-making, with the use of gender bias or traditional images that have considerable effects on how women and men are represented or are expected to behave, which may confront egalitarian models of relationships. This study aims to analyze how the traditional model of couples is represented in the 20 romantic highest-grossing movies selected from the years 2000–2010, and whether the reading of non-egalitarian images awakens different meanings and reflections by experts and undergraduates in Higher Education (areas of education and communication). For this aim, a mixed methodology was used, first qualitative (six in-depth interviews with academics and film analyses of the selected movies), then quantitative (questionnaire to 251 undergraduates analyzing films), and then qualitative again (personal reports from the same students). Results confirmed the reflective making of gender bias and non-egalitarian images of couple relationships in six of the box-office films, with moderate percentages in categories of Submission, Dominance, Dependence, and higher percentages of Manipulation, either for/from women or men. The study concludes that romance cinema was positively valued by students and academics as an enabling cultural product for the analysis, reflection, and deconstruction of non-egalitarian images, so that higher education students can be guided to critically seek suitable understandings of gender and couple relationships.

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Chinese migrants, morality and film ethics in Italian cinema

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

The life of Mario Tchou in the graphic novel La Macchina Zero. A transnational Sino-Italian scientist

The life of Mario Tchou in the graphic novel La Macchina Zero. A transnational Sino-Italian scientist

Ethnic enclave or transcultural edge? Reassessing the Prato district through digital mapping

Romance cinema for debunking gender bias of non-egalitarian couple relationships in higher education

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