Street Cries and Street Fights: Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren and the <i>popolana</i>

Culhane, Sarah

doi:10.1080/02614340.2017.1332720

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“…In order to better grasp the importance of Magnani's performances for the transformation of gender stereotypes in Italian cinema, one should bear in mind the definition of the popolana as a "woman of the people" (Culhane 2017) Anna Magnani's embodiment of the figure of popolana or the "woman of the people" (Culhane 2017), and her identification with post-war Rome makes explicit how female roles symbolized the vividness of the city.…”

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Gender and Migrant Roles in Italian Neorealist and New Migrant Films: Cinema as an Apparatus of Reconfiguration of National Identity and ‘Otherness’

Charitonidou

2021

Humanities

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The article examines an ensemble of gender and migrant roles in post-war Neorealist and New Migrant Italian films. Its main objective is to analyze gender and placemaking practices in an ensemble of films, addressing these practices on a symbolic level. The main argument of the article is that the way gender and migrant roles were conceived in the Italian Neorealist and New Migrant Cinema was based on the intention to challenge certain stereotypes characterizing the understanding of national identity and ‘otherness’. The article presents how the roles of borgatari and women function as devices of reconceptualization of Italy’s identity, providing a fertile terrain for problematizing the relationship between migration studies, urban studies and gender studies. Special attention is paid to how migrants are related to the reconceptualization of Italy’s national narrations. The Neorealist model is understood here as a precursor of the narrative strategies that one encounters in numerous films belonging to the New Migrant cinema in Italy. The article also explores how certain aspects of more contemporary studies of migrant cinema in Italy could illuminate our understanding of Neorealist cinema and its relation to national narratives. To connect gender representation and migrant roles in Italian cinema, the article focuses on the analysis of the status of certain roles of women, paying particular attention to Anna Magnagi’s roles.

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Gender and Migrant Roles in Italian Neorealist and New Migrant Films: Cinema as an Apparatus of Reconfiguration of National Identity and ‘Otherness’

Charitonidou

2021

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Italian Neorealist and New Migrant films asdispositifsof alterity: Howborgatariandpopolanechallenge the stereotypes of nationhood and womanhood?

Charitonidou

2022

Studies in European Cinema

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ExhibitingItalianità: Anna Magnani and Sophia Loren asMadri della Patria

Khrebtan-Hörhager

Burgchardt

2019

Communication, Culture and Critique

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In this essay, we analyze how the temporary photographic exhibits of Anna Magnani and Sophia Loren served as artifacts of creating, circulating, and negotiating italianità: the essence of Italian culture and national identity. The photography exhibits in Rome and Sorrento anchor our study, but in order to understand more fully how they invite or reinforce cultural meaning, we evaluated these works in their larger architectural, regional, and urban contexts. We conclude that the exhibits communicate contrasting versions of italianità in order to subvert patriarchic tendencies in society, withstand globalization, challenge pan-European transnationalism, and create a strong sense of shared, yet diverse, identity by Italians, as well as manifest national pride to the visitors of the Belpaese.

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Street Cries and Street Fights: Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren and the popolana

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Gender and Migrant Roles in Italian Neorealist and New Migrant Films: Cinema as an Apparatus of Reconfiguration of National Identity and ‘Otherness’

Gender and Migrant Roles in Italian Neorealist and New Migrant Films: Cinema as an Apparatus of Reconfiguration of National Identity and ‘Otherness’

Italian Neorealist and New Migrant films asdispositifsof alterity: Howborgatariandpopolanechallenge the stereotypes of nationhood and womanhood?

ExhibitingItalianità: Anna Magnani and Sophia Loren asMadri della Patria

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