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1 online resource |
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Sergio Rigoletto and Louis Bayman: The fair and the museum: framing the popular -- Christopher Wagstaff: Italian cinema, popular? -- Rosalind Galt: The prettiness of Italian cinema -- Richard Dyer: The pervasiveness of song in Italian cinema -- Louis Bayman: Melodrama as seriousness -- Tamao Nakahara: Moving masculinity: incest narratives in Italian sex comedies -- Sergio Rigoletto: Laughter in Lina Wertmüller's The seduction of Mimì -- Alex Marlow-Mann: Strategies of tension: towards a re-interpretation of Enzo G. Castellari's The big racket and the Italian crime film -- Irene Lottini: "Il delirio del lungo metraggio: cinema as mass phenomenon in early twentieth tentury Italian cinema -- Reka Buckley: Dressing the part: "made in Italy" goes to the movies with Lucia Bosé in Chronicle of a love affair -- Daniel O'Brien: Hercules versus Hercules: variation and continuation in two generations of heroic masculinity -- Alan O'Leary: On the complexity of cinepanettone -- Francesca Piredda: Cinema and popular preaching: the Italian missionary film and fiamme -- Mark Goodall: The Italian mondo documentary film |
| Summary |
From the origins of the silent feature film and the creation of the star system, Italy has been at the forefront of the development of cinema as a mass phenomenon. Popular Italian genre films were among the most internationally successful Italian films ever, inundating the cinemas of Latin America and the Middle East as well as serving as B-movies in theatres across the United Kingdom and America. Cinema played a central role in Italian life, promoting Italian fashion and music and forming a key concern politically. Yet Italian cinema, like that of other European countries, is best known academically as a source of films for the international arthouse circuit. This book seeks to reassess this imbalance by bringing together some of the most innovative and distinguished scholarship in the field for a comprehensive examination of how 'the popular' works in Italian cinema, from opera to the missionary film to sex comedies |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Italy -- History -- 20th century
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Film theory & criticism -- Italy.
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Film: styles & genres -- Italy.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Performing Arts.
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Motion pictures
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Film -- historia.
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Italy
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Motion pictures
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History
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Motion pictures.
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Films.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bayman, Louis
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Rigoletto, Sergio, 1977-
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| ISBN |
9781137305657 |
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1137305657 |
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