{"product_id":"9781438490601-orienting-italy","title":"Orienting Italy","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChina through the Lens of Italian Filmmakers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores Italian filmmakers' representations of China and the Chinese, both at home and abroad.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Book Award for Performance and Visual Culture presented by the American Association of Teachers of Italian \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrienting Italy\u003c\/i\u003e explores contemporary Italian filmmakers' fascination with China and the Chinese in both documentary and fictional films. Delineating the contours of this fascination, the book begins with the works of Carlo Lizzani (\u003ci\u003eBehind the Great Wall\u003c\/i\u003e, 1958) and Michelangelo Antonioni (\u003ci\u003eChung Kuo-China\u003c\/i\u003e, 1972), both of whom ventured to China with the aim of documenting new, yet physically and culturally distant, realities. Their documentary investigations yielded to fictional portrayals, from the lavish view of a historical Middle Kingdom by director Bernardo Bertolucci (\u003ci\u003eThe Last Emperor\u003c\/i\u003e, 1987) to the stark consideration of Italian economic exchange with contemporary China by Gianni Amelio (\u003ci\u003eThe Missing Star\u003c\/i\u003e, 2006). The wave of Chinese migration to Italy in the late twentieth century created a new sense of otherness within Italy as Chinese migrants became the subjects of fictional narratives and documentaries in the works of Stefano Incerti (\u003ci\u003eGorbaciof\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010) and Andrea Segre (\u003ci\u003eShun Li and the Poet\u003c\/i\u003e, 2011) and Riccardo Cremona and Vincenzo De Cecco (\u003ci\u003eMiss Little China\u003c\/i\u003e, 2009). In the twenty-first century, a new chapter in the relationship between Italy and China has emerged in the form of transnational collaborations in the art and business of filmmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40742607323233,"sku":"9781438490601","price":28.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27002839.jpg?v=1738737411","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781438490601-orienting-italy","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}