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migrantes italianos e latinos entre as sombras de Hollywood - breve introdução

Abstract

It’s possible to analyze the evolution of the cinematographic imagery of migration from  a diachronic perspective. One can identify both a militant stream of filmmaking (especially  in the last 3-4 decades), due to the efforts and reflections of single directors and research  groups, worried about the social issues related to migration and trying to give resonance to  this important phenomenon, and an Hollywood-based, widely distributed category of movies,  promoting a stereotyped view of migrants. This massive production of stereotypes influences  the very history and evolution of the cinematography in the 20th and 21st century.  what  images, stereotypes, trivializations caused the figure of the migrant to be hastily dismissed? In  this article, we try to sketch an introduction to the perception of italian and latin immigrants in  american cinema, underlying the introduction of racial stereotypes.