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book		Celluloid Immigrant : Italian Australian filmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele / by Gaetano Rando and Gino Moliterno St Kilda, Vic: Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM), c2011. Call No: 81MAN RAN Author: Moliterno, Gino; Rando, Gaetano Source: AT Place: St Kilda, Vic Publisher: Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) PubDate: c2011 PhysDes: 145 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Series: The moving image ; no. 10, 2011 Subject: CINEMATOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY. AUSTRALIA; DIRECTORS. AUSTRALIA; FILM AUSTRALIA; FILMMAKING; FILMMAKING. AUSTRALIA; MIGRATION; MANGIAMELE, GIORGIO; SPAG, THE (AT, Giorgio Mangiamele, 1962); CLAY (AT, Giorgio Mangiamele, 1964); BEYOND REASON (AT, Giorgio Mangiamele, 1970) Summary: " Giorgio Mangiamele is one of the most under-estimated figures in Australian cinema history. Soon after his arrival in Australia in 1952 as a migrant from Italy, he began making films at a time when feature film production in Australia was almost non-existent. His films were seldom seen in Australia, although one - Clay (1965) - was applauded overseas as an official selection in the Cannes Film Festival. " -- BOOK BLURB (last page of book) Notes: "Published biannually by Australian Teachers of Media in association with its publishing partners, National Film & Sound Archive (NSFA), the Australian Film Institute (AFI) and RMIT University (School of Media and Communications)" -- Verso t.p; Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN: 1876467215 Contents: -- notes on the text -- introduction -- chapter one: a celluloid life: a brief biography of Giorgio Mangiamele -- chapter two: foto studio Mangiamele: serving Melbourne's Italian community -- chapter three: Mangiamele's migrant movies -- chapter four: Clay and Cannes: the beginnings of art cinema in Australia -- chapter five: beyond Cannes and Beyond Reason -- chapter six: beyond Beyond Reason: towards Papua New Guinea -- chapter seven: back in oz and more unrealised projects -- conclusion -- Giorgio Mangiamele filmography -- bibliography -- index -- More info
book		Giorgio Mangiamele : cinematographer of the Italian migrant experience / by Raffaele Lampugnani Ballan, Vic: Connor Court Publishing, 2012. Call No: 81MAN LAM Author: Lampugnani, Raffaele Source: AT Place: Ballan, Vic Publisher: Connor Court Publishing PubDate: 2012 PhysDes: 196 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm Subject: AUSTRALIA; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; IMMIGRATION IN FILMS AND TELEVISION; MULTICULTURALISM AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; MIGRATION; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA; MANGIAMELE, GIORGIO; CONTRATTO, IL (AT, Giorgio Mangiamele, 1953) Summary: "Giorgio Mangiamele is without doubt one of the most interesting and artistically gifted filmmakers in contemporary Australian cinema, even though his ideas and talent were often hampered in a technical sense by material and financial circumstances; 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 typcasting of the author as a "migrant" cinematographer. This study has sought to bridge the prejudical divide between the diasporic context and the artistic value, talent and intentions of the filmmaker. Underpinning this argument with Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical framework of "minor" literatures, it is suggest that Mangiamele's diasporic 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, a socio-historical and cultural framing for his oeuvre is provided confirming 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." -- BOOK JACKET Notes: Includes bibliographical references ISBN: 9781921421631 Contents: -- main abbreviations -- introduction -- 1. migrant bricoleur or influental pioneer? The Deleuzian theory of 'minor literature' as a critical tool to frame Giorgio Mangiamele's cinematic production -- 2. migrant bricoleur, neorealist imitator, scholar, or gifted artist? who is really behind (or in front of) the camera? -- 3. the mise-en-scene of history and of diasporic reality in Mangiamele's first film, Il contratto -- 4. Mangiamele, cinematographer of enduring perceptions of southern Italian migrant backwardness -- 5. constructing a filmic discourse on Italian canonical intertextual references -- 6. a 'nosographic' reading of Mangiamele's ambivalent emotional and psychological relationship with host society, depicting states and feelings of dislocation and banishment -- 7. observing and depicting human behaviour to restore dignity in society: the social mise e scene and social performance in Mangiamele's early films -- conclusion -- bibliography -- filmography -- appendix -- More info
journal article		Liminality, temporality and marginalization in Giorgio Mangiamele's migrant movies in Studies in Australasian cinema (2007) vol.1 iss.2 p.209-221 Author: Rando, Gaetano PhysDes: Article Subject: ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. AUSTRALIA; MANGIAMELE, GIORGIO; CLAY (AT, Giorgio Mangiamele, 1964); SPAG, THE (AT, Giorgio Mangiamele, 1962) Summary: Giorgio Mangiamele, born in Catania in 1926, migrated to Melbourne in 1952 and constitutes a rare example of CALD involvement in the early development of Australian cinema in the post-war period. His feature film Clay (1965) was the first Australian film to be invited to enter the competition at the Cannes Film Festival. However, despite his significant contribution to the emerging Australian cinematic culture, particularly to the development of ‘art’ cinema, he has received relatively little recognition. Over a thirty-year period Mangiamele made fourteen films as director or director/producer. His first productions – The contract (1953), Unwanted (c.1957), The brothers (1958), The spag (1961) and Ninety-nine per cent (1963) – present themes related to the Italian migration experience in Australia in the 1950s depicted in all its immediacy and contemporaneity as an integral feature of the existentialist condition of our times. The only Australian director consistently to deal with such themes at the time, Mangiamele focuses on the dislocation, the alienation, the loneliness and the recall of the home country that constitutes the experience of his emblematic characters struggling to make sense of a society that is in many ways unaccepting. This article proposes to apply the concepts of liminality and temporality elaborated by Hamid Nacify (2001) to the analysis of the themes related to the Italian-Australian diaspora in the films of Giorgio Mangiamele.--ABSTRACT More info
personality microfilm collection		MANGIAMELE, GIORGIO Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION PhysDes: Clippings Subject: MANGIAMELE, GIORGIO More info

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