Transnational Maleness: the Italian Immigrant in Hell Drivers

Elisabetta Girelli

doi:10.1353/cj.2005.0028

Transnational Maleness: the Italian Immigrant in Hell Drivers

Elisabetta Girelli

Film Studies

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This essay explores the representation and function of the Italian man in the 1950s "tough-guy" film Hell Drivers, focusing on the dynamic interaction between Italianness and Britishness in the film's construction of a new antihero.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	44-56
Number of pages	13
Journal	Cinema Journal
Volume	44
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2005.0028
Publication status	Published - Jul 2005

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