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Envisioning the Italian migrant experience down under: the socio-historical and cultural framing of Giorgio Mangiamele's "minor" cinema
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posted on 2017-10-10, 05:40 authored by Lampugnani, RaffaeleGiorgio Mangiamele is without doubt one of the most interesting and artistically
gifted filmmakers in contemporary Australian cinema, even though often material and
financial circumstances have not permitted him to develop his ideas in a technical sense;
he is absolutely crucial as representative of the post-war Italian migration experience in
Australia.
His oeuvre has received considerable critical attention recently but a serious,
organic, critical analysis has been hampered by misconceptions about his marginal
position with respect to mainstream production and the typecasting of the author as a
"migrant" cinematographer. This dissertation has sought to bridge the prejudicial divide
between the diasporic context and the artistic value, talent and intentions of the
filmmaker. Underpinning my argument with Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical
framework of "minor" literatures, I suggest that Mangiamele's cinematic production did
have an influence on mainstream cinema and society, in the sense that "minor no longer
designates specific literatures but the revolutionary conditions for every literature within
the heart of what is called great (or established) literature" (Kafka, 18).
In order to elucidate Mangiamele's acuity, and cinematographic talent and human
observational skills, I provide a socio-historical and cultural framing for his oeuvre which
confirms the author's crucial importance for the post-war period, his highly individual
style and work imbued with ethical and moral principles as well as compassion and
humanistic concerns.
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