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

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