Overview

Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning of popular cinema in Italy to give a sense of its complexity and specificity in Italian cinema, from early to contemporary cinema.

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Author:   L. Bayman ,  S. Rigoletto
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.336kg
ISBN:  

9780230300163

ISBN 10:   0230300162
Pages:   249
Publication Date:   17 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements The Fair and the Museum: Framing the Popular; S.Rigoletto & L.Bayman Italian Cinema, Popular?; C.Wagstaff The Prettiness of Italian Cinema; R.Galt The Pervasiveness of Song in Italian Cinema; R.Dyer Melodrama as Seriousness; L.Bayman Moving Masculinity: Incest Narratives in Italian Sex Comedies; T.Nakahar Laughter and the Popular in Lina Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimì; S.Rigoletto Strategies of Tension: Towards a Re-Interpretation of Enzo G. Castellari's The Big Racket and The Italian Crime Film; A.Marlow-Mann 'Il delirio del lungo metraggio': Cinema as Mass Phenomenon in Early Twentieth Tentury Italian Cinema; I.Lottini Dressing the Part: 'Made in Italy' Goes to the Movies with Lucia Bosé in Chronicle of a Love Affair; R.Buckley Hercules versus Hercules: Variation and Continuation in Two Generations of Heroic Masculinity; D.O'Brien On the Complexity of Cinepanettone; A.O'Leary Cinema and Popular Preaching: the Italian Missionary Film and Fiamme; F.Piredda The Italian Mondo Documentary Film; M.Goodall Index

Reviews

'This volume really does represent a shift in thinking on Italian cinema, and the many fine, young scholars who contribute to this book show the direction that future criticism of Italian film will take. It is a valuable contribution to cinema studies on many levels, and I was delighted to have read it.' - Peter Bondanella, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Film Studies and Italian, Indiana University, USA

Author Information

RÉKA BUCKLEY Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK RICHARD DYER teaches Film Studies at King's College London and St. Andrews University, UK ROSALIND GALT Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK MARK GOODALL Senior Lecturer at the University of Bradford, UK IRENE LOTTINI teaches Italian language and Italian cinema at the University of Iowa, USA TAMAO NAKAHARA ALEX MARLOW-MANN Research Co-ordinator at the Centre for Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK DANIEL O'BRIEN Freelance writer and teacher, UK ALAN O'LEARY University of Leeds, UK MARIA FRANCESCA PIREDDA Lecturer in Cinema History, Catholic University of Milan and University of Bologna, Italy CHRISTOPHER WAGSTAFF Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Reading, UK

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