Intro -- Acting Across Borders -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION: ACTING ACROSS BORDERS -- Part One Amedeo Nazzari -- Introduction to Part One: Amedeo Nazzari's Many Im/mobilities -- 1 Flying: Empire Cinema's (Aero)Mobilities -- 2 Returning: Im/mobility and Immigrant's Nostalgia -- 3 Fighting: Wartime Im/mobility in Harlem -- 4 Romancing: Postwar Im/mobilities in Raffaello Matarazzo's Melodramas -- 5 Migrating: The Pathology of Im/mobility -- Conclusion to Part One: Driving the Flâneuse: Le notti di Cabiria -- Part Two Alberto Sordi
Introduction to Part Two: Alberto Sordi's Mobile Comedies -- 6 Vacationing: The Rise of the Travelling Comedian -- 7 Working: 'L'Italia è una Repubblica Democratica, fondata sul lavoro' -- 8 Killing: Criminal Mobilities -- 9 Exploring: Italian Identity Abroad -- 10 Drilling: (Auto)Mobile Satires of Global Petroculture -- Conclusion to Part Two: Driving Across (Screen) Borders -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index