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[email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications 1 Hidden postcolonial conscience in Italian cinema: Attempts to autodefine ‘the Italian’ through representations of the Black Other in the commedia all’italiana Linde Maria Elise Luijnenburg A thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Italian Studies University of Warwick, School of Modern Languages, December 2017 2 Table of Contents List of Illustrations p. 3 Acknowledgements and Declaration p. 4 Abstract p. 6 Introduction p. 7 1. La conosceva bene lui: Italian colonial history and its myths in historiography and cinema p. 48 2. “How do they show themselves?” Approaching the commedia all’italiana p. 97 3. “And on the other side, the bright look of innocence”: Lo sceicco bianco (and the problematic binary of genre and auteur) p. 141 4. “Blackness, darkness, shadow, shades, night”: Italianità as a performance in Il moralista p. 182 5. The framer is framed in Oggi, domani, dopodomani? p. 205 6. “L’illuminazione dal dubbio” in Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l’amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? p.