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Italian cinema audiences : histories and memories of cinemagoing in post-war Italy / Daniela Treveri Gennari, Catherine O'Rawe, Danielle Hipkins, Silvia Dibeltulo, and Sarah Culhane.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.I88 T767 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Treveri Gennari, Daniela, author.
- O'Rawe, Catherine, author.
- Hipkins, Danielle E., author.
- Dibeltulo, Silvia, author.
- Culhane, Sarah, author.
- Series:
- Topics and issues in national cinema ; v. 8.
- Topics and issues in national cinema ; volume 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Italy--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--Italy.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects--Italy.
- Motion picture audiences--Italy--History--20th century.
- Motion picture audiences.
- World War, 1939-1945--Motion pictures and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- War and motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- History.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects.
- Italy--Social life and customs--1945-.
- Italy.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Investigates the importance of cinema-going to social life in post-war Italy, and unpacks the complex relations between film texts and their consumption, individual and collective memory, and national, regional, and gendered identities"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- pt. 1 The activity of cinemagoing
- 2. Cinemas, exhibition practices and topographical memories
- 3. Only entertainment?: Memories inside and outside the cinema
- pt. 2 Films: Genre, taste and popular memory
- 4. Audiences and film genre
- 5. `Back then I believed in the nation
- I don't anymore': Revisiting the national film canon through audience memories of neorealism
- pt. 3 Gender and cinemagoing
- 6. A girls-eye view of post-war Italian cinema
- 7. Beyond `belle e brave': Female stars and Italian cinema audiences
- 8. Narrative imaginings of masculinity through cinema.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501347689
- 1501347683
- OCLC:
- 1158179690
- Publisher Number:
- 99986334848
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