A Companion to Italian Cinema
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:2nd Jun '17
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Written by leading figures in the field, A Companion to Italian Cinema re-maps Italian cinema studies, employing new perspectives on traditional issues, and fresh theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema.
- Offers new approaches to Italian cinema, whose importance in the post-war period was unrivalled
- Presents a theory based approach to historical and archival material
- Includes work by both established and more recent scholars, with new takes on traditional critical issues, and new theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema
- Covers recent issues such as feminism, stardom, queer cinema, immigration and postcolonialism, self-reflexivity and postmodernism, popular genre cinema, and digitalization
- A comprehensive collection of essays addressing the prominent films, directors and cinematic forms of Italian cinema, which will become a standard resource for academic and non-academic purposes alike <
"Burke’s meticulous editing forges fertile connections between the Canadian and American academies and those in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Also, Marco Vanelli Veronica Pravadelli, Stefania Parigi, Sandra Lischi and Christian Uva provide perspectives from Italian universities, resulting overall in a thorough, comprehensive overview of English language scholarship on Italian cinema."
Matthew Griffith - Harvard University
Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies, Volume 7 Number 1
ISBN: 9781444332285
Dimensions: 249mm x 175mm x 36mm
Weight: 1157g
656 pages