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Historically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred destination for immigrants from the global South. Life in the land of la dolce vita has not seemed so sweet recently, as Italy struggles with the cultural challenges caused by this surge in immigration. Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan explores thirteen key full-length Italian films released between 1990 and 2010 that treat this remarkable moment of cultural role reversal through a plurality of styles. In it, Nathan argues that Italy sees itself as the quintessential internal Other of Western Europe, and that this subalternity directly influences its cinematic response to immigrants, Europe's external Others. In framing his case to understand Italy's cinematic response to immigrants, Nathan first explores some basic questions: Who exactly is the Other in Italy? Does Italy's own past partial alterity affect its present response to its newest subalterns? Drawing on Homi Bhabha's writings and Italian cinematic history, Nathan then posits the existence of marvelous bodies that are momentarily neither completely Italian nor completely immigrant. This ambivalence of forms extends to the films themselves, which tend to be generic hybrids. The persistent curious presence of marvelous bodies and a pervasive generic hybridity enact Italy's own chronic ambivalence that results from its presence at the cultural crossroads of the Mediterranean.

Content

Introduction

• Body / frame and body structure
• General information about replacing body panels
• Safety first

Maintenance

• Caring for paint
• Recovery
• Antirust treatment and priming

Overview of damage types and their recovery

• Determination of severity of damage
• The choice between repair and replacement

Tools and equipment

• Tools and equipment
• Equipment

Elimination of minor body damage

• Eliminating scratches from paintwork
• Elimination of minor dents
• Restoration of areas exposed to minor corrosion
• Repair of plastic body parts

Restoring a body that has serious damage

• Types of tin work
• Putties
• Correction of significant corrosion damage
• Glass fiber recovery methods
• Correcting the stiffness of the bearing body by stretching

Replacement of body panels

• Introduction
• Body parts fastened on bolts
• Welded panels
• Adhesive body elements
• Coupling of body panels

Preparing for painting

• Preparation of old paint
• Removing paintwork preparing for painting
• Application of primer
• Masking panels

Body painting

• Painting equipment
• Maintenance of the spray gun
• Types of paint
• Staining procedure
• Prophylaxis and a technique of elimination of the defects arising at painting and drying

Doors and glasses

• Replacement and adjustment of doors
• Repair, replacement and installation of glasses

Facing and body accessories

• General information
• Removing and installing body linings and accessories
• Removing and installing outdoor lighting
• Removing and installing emblems and moldings

Welding

• General information
• Types of welding
• Welding with a consumable electrode in shielding gas
• Oxygen-acetylene welding
• Soldering

A dictionary of terms used in the performance of body repair