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Migrant Stories And Italian Colonialism: A Report On Two Documentaries, Simone Brioni Dr.
Migrant Stories And Italian Colonialism: A Report On Two Documentaries, Simone Brioni Dr.
Department of English Faculty Publications
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Costruire La Razza Come Mostruosità, Simone Brioni Dr.
Costruire La Razza Come Mostruosità, Simone Brioni Dr.
Department of English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Zombies And The Post-Colonial Italian Unconscious, Simone Brioni
Zombies And The Post-Colonial Italian Unconscious, Simone Brioni
Department of English Faculty Publications
This article analyses the relationship between the horror genre and colonialism by focusing on Lucio Fulci’s Zombi 2 (1979) and discusses how and to what extent the colonial overtones of this film provide a fictional representation of the Italian collective unconscious fear of African immigration, which resurrected the memory of forgotten colonial crimes in Africa. Drawing on postcolonial theory and psychoanalysis, this article also underlines how xenophobe political propaganda has employed horror imagery – and especially that provided by zombie movies – in order to discriminate against immigrants.