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Author:   Michela Ardizzoni ,  Valerio Ferme ,  Guillaume Bernardi ,  Nabil Echchaibi
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9781498528085

ISBN 10:   1498528082
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   03 December 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Mediterranean, the City, and Cultural Encounters Valerio Ferme and Michela Ardizzoni Chapter 1: Decadent Nights: A Cocaine-Filled Reading of 1920s Post-Ottoman Istanbul G. Carole Woodall Chapter 2: Close(d) Encounters: Tangier, the Arts, and the North-South Divide Mary Vogl Chapter 3: Cityscapes as Dystopias in Moroccan Film: Hicham Lasri’s L’Os de fer (2007) Valérie K. Orlando Chapter 4: New Imagined Frenchness: Med’In Marseille and the Identity Debates in France Nabil Echchaibi Chapter 5: Neapolitan Media Activism and Translocal Identities Michela Ardizzoni Chapter 6: Where is Naples? Locating Naples in John Turturro’s film Passione Guillaume Bernardi Chapter 7: Lands of Approximation: The Use of Chinese Icons in Roberto Saviano’s Gomorra and Ermanno Rea’s La dismissione Valentina Fulginiti Chapter 8: Utopia by the Sea: The Disappearance of the City and the Myth the Mediterranean in Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Mediterraneo, and Il Postino Valerio Ferme About the Contributors

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A thoughtful and timely study, in light of the current Mediterranean migration crisis. Ardizzoni and Ferme's edited book offers through its unique, provocative and transversal reading of Mediterranean port cities fresh perspectives on their historical metamorphosis into complex, contradictory and porous cultural, artistic, philosophical and economic agoras. -- Safoi Babana-Hampton, Michigan State University An inspiring and innovative collection of essays on cultural complexities and social challenges in contemporary Mediterranean cities. -- Federica Frediani, University of Lugano

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Michela Ardizzoni is assistant professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Valerio Ferme is professor of Italian at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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