Italy On Screen : National Identity and Italian Imaginary.
Title:
Italy On Screen : National Identity and Italian Imaginary.
Author:
Bolton, Lucy.
ISBN:
9783035300024
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (234 pages)
Series:
New Studies in European Cinema ; v.9
New Studies in European Cinema
Contents:
Contents -- GEOFFREY NOWELL-SMITH Foreword xi -- LUCY BOLTON Introduction 1 -- Part I Italian Imaginaries 15 -- CRISTIANA FURLAN Italy and Lamerica: The Road of Remembrance 17 -- SERGIO RIGOLETTO The Italian Comedy of the Economic Miracle: L'italiano medio and Strategies of Gender Exclusion 33 -- ELEANOR ANDREWS Family Life, Moretti Style 49 -- Part II The Catholic Church 63 -- TIM CAWKWELL The Catholic Church in Il bidone: Salvation or Swindle? 65 -- ERMINIA PASSANNANTI Pasolini's Deconstruction and Reformulation of Italian CatholicIdentity in La ricotta 77 -- DANIELA TREVERI GENNARI Forbidden Pleasures: Voyeurism, Showgirls and Catholicismin Postwar Cinema in Italy 101 -- Part III Italy and Britain 115 -- RAFFAELLA ANTINUCC IItalian (Re)settings in British Cinema: Mike Barker's A Good Woman 117 -- MARIA SERENA MARCHESI The Duke's Versace Sunglasses: Catholic Piety and Italian Otherness in Alex Cox's Revengers Tragedy 135 -- Part IV Contemporary Perspectives 151 -- EMANUELE D'ONOFRIO Seeking a 'Chance for a Reawakening': The 1970s in New Italian Cinema 153 -- MARIA BONARIA URBAN Cities and Landscapes: Physical Spaces and Topoi of Identityin Films by Giuseppe Tornatore and Carlo Mazzacurati 173 -- PAOLO RUSSO Body vs Technology? Myths and Identity in Gabriele Salvatores's Nirvana 187 -- PAULINE SMALL Italy on Screen and Italian Film Studies 201 -- Notes on Contributors 209 -- Index 213.
Abstract:
This collection of articles arises out of the international conference 'Italy on Screen', held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London, in February 2007. This volume assembles work on different aspects of the relationships between Italy and film, and confirms the variety of approaches which contemporary students are able to bring to this field. These essays display the reach of Italian cinema into fresh areas of film studies, as well as gender studies, theology, cultural studies and comparative literature. Through these explorations, new perspectives emerge on the historical and contemporary relationships between Italy and cinema, including rural landscapes and indigenous people, but also Catholicism and perspectives of non-Italians. This volume thus constitutes a platform for scholars and devotees of Italian cinema to share their original and non-standard work, incorporating some classic texts and filmmakers but also branching out to offer thought-provoking new perspectives.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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