Università Roma Tre

A voyage in about three decades of narratives for the big and the small screen, with the second generation immigrants as leads, behind and before the camera. The battle for a new nationality law showed the presence of groups resisting the redefinition of the main narrative on Italianness. The fears raised by the attacks in the heart of the Europe joined the return of some “race figures” linked to the past of Italy, as a country involved in dynamics of power and abuse on subaltern groups, from slavery to colonialism to biopolitical governance of the immigration.

Bibliography:
Leonardo De Franceschi, Cittadinanze visuali. L’italianità negli anni della battaglia per lo ius soli (Roma, Aracne Editrice, in preparation);
plus an online collection of articles, edited by the professor.
Filmography:
currently under discussion.