{"id":9016,"date":"2010-09-19T02:26:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T02:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9016"},"modified":"2016-08-25T01:38:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T01:38:31","slug":"equivocal-subjects-the-representation-of-mixed-race-identity-in-italian-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9016","title":{"rendered":"Equivocal subjects: The representation of mixed-race identity in Italian film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/proquest.umi.com\/pqdlink?did=1459918281&amp;Fmt=7&amp;clientI d=79356&amp;RQT=309&amp;VName=PQD\" target=\"_blank\">Equivocal subjects: The representation of mixed-race identity in Italian film<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of California, Irvine<br \/>\n2007<br \/>\n226 pages<br \/>\nAAT 3296258<br \/>\nISBN: 9780549410775<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/psoa\/directory\/bios\/greene_shelleen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Shelleen Maisha Greene<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Conceptual Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My dissertation seeks to establish a critical framework for the analysis of mixed-race subjects in Italian film. Within the Italian context, mixed-race subjects emerged out of the colonial conditions stemming from the nation&#8217;s occupation and settlement of its east African colonies beginning in the nineteenth century. However, racial mixture has also served as a metaphor for the internal division of Italy between North and South, a historical formation that arguably allows for the development of analytics, such as the \u201cSouthern Question,\u201d by which to essentialize a racially heterogeneous population. Through an examination of four historically contextualized films, I examine the presentation of mixed-race subjects in <em>Cabiria<\/em> (1914), <em>Sotto la croce del sud<\/em> (1938), <em>Il Mulatto<\/em> (1949\/1951), and <em>Il fiore delle mille e una notte<\/em> (1974). I argue that the mixed-race subject is a constitutive element of the Italian cinema, a figure that serves as a nodal point for the intersection of conceptions of race and the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Purchase the disseration <a href=\"https:\/\/order.proquest.com\/OA_HTML\/pqdtibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?sitex=10020:22372:US&amp;item=3296258&amp;dlnow=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equivocal subjects: The representation of mixed-race identity in Italian film University of California, Irvine 2007 226 pages AAT 3296258 ISBN: 9780549410775 Shelleen Maisha Greene, Assistant Professor of Conceptual Studies University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee My dissertation seeks to establish a critical framework for the analysis of mixed-race subjects in Italian film. Within the Italian context, mixed-race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,21,838,28,1196,8],"tags":[1797,3144,3852,3851,3258],"class_list":["post-9016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-latincarib","category-dissertations","category-europe","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-italy","tag-shelleen-greene","tag-shelleen-m-greene","tag-shelleen-maisha-greene","tag-university-of-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48828,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016\/revisions\/48828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}