Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque by Giorgio Bertellini

Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque

Giorgio Bertellini

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Giorgio Bertellini traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic aesthetic--the picturesque. Once associated with landscape painting in northern Europe,...

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