Staging (E)motions: the importance of Elvira Notari's 'city films' for twentieth-century immigrant and female audiences

This article explores the significant social changes registered by woman film director Elvira Notari in her films, particularly regarding the position of women and Italian immigrant audiences in the US. It thus suggests new readings of Notari's work through the concepts of urban capabilities an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Pelayo Sañudo, Eva
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/36861
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/36861
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Elvira Notari
City films
(E)motions
Cultural immigration
Gender representation
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Sumario:This article explores the significant social changes registered by woman film director Elvira Notari in her films, particularly regarding the position of women and Italian immigrant audiences in the US. It thus suggests new readings of Notari's work through the concepts of urban capabilities and the "flâneuse". As most of her original dense archive has been almost lost, only the extant feature film "È Piccerella"as well as secondary material and scholarship retrieving her work will be used to analyze the contributions of the director to cultural immigration, gender representation and film history.