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The Accidental Citizens of Bedford: The Representation of Italian Immigrants in Britain

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posted on 2022-04-07, 00:00 authored by Maria A. Videtta

This thesis looks at the history of the Italian community in Bedford and how it has been documented in two films currently held in the University of East Anglia film archive. The first, England May Be Home, is a dramatised documentary directed by amateur filmmakers Richard and Margaret Hodkins. England May Be Home, has a didactic approach as it presents the Italians’ arrival in Bedford from the immigrants’ perspective. The second, Focus on: Bedford, filmed ten years after England May Be Home, in 1966, is a documentary directed by Harry Aldous and created for Anglia television that follows the life of the Conte family, an Italian family in Bedford, and investigates what it calls the ‘self-contained’ Italian community. The present thesis looks specifically at how the films address issues regarding integration and argues that Italian integration in Britain has not been as successful or as straightforward as the scholarship suggests.

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2022-04-21

CIP Code

  • 16.0902

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Charles L. Leavitt IV

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  • Master of Arts

Degree Level

  • Master's Thesis

Alternate Identifier

1311516648

Library Record

6184836

OCLC Number

1311516648

Program Name

  • Italian Studies

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