Italy in Early American Cinema offers readings of early films that pay close attention to how landscape representations that were related to narrative settings and filmmaking locations conveyed distinct ideas about racial difference and national destiny.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Transatlantic Racial Culture and Modern Visual Reproductions
Part 1. Picturing Italy's Natural and Social Landscapes
1. Picturesque Mode of Difference
2. The Picturesque Italian South as Transnational Commodity
Part 2. Picture-Perfect America
3. Picturesque Views and American Natural Landscapes
4. Picturesque New York
5. Black Hands, White Faces
6. White Hearts
7. Performing Geography
Afterword: "A Mirror with a Memory"
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
