Italy on screen : national identity and Italian imaginary / Lucy Bolton and Christina Siggers Manson [editors]

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Italy on Screen Conference Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London. Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Other Authors: Bolton, Lucy, Siggers Manson, Christina, 1977-
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, 2010.
Series:New studies in European cinema ; 9.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Lucy Bolton
  • Part I. Italian Imaginaries. Italy and Lamerica: the road of remembrance / Cristiana Furlan
  • The Italian comedy of the economic miracle: L'italiano medio and strategies of gender exclusion / Sergio Rigoletto
  • Family life, Moretti style / Eleanor Andrews
  • Part II. The Catholic Church. The Catholic Church in Il Bidone: salvation or swindle? / Tim Cawkell
  • Pasolini's deconstruction and reformulation of Italian Catholic identity in La ricotta / Erminia Passannanti
  • Forbidden pleasures: voyeurism, showgirls and Catholicism in postwar cinema in Italy / Daniela Treveri Gennari
  • Part III. Italy and Britain. Italian (re)settings in British Cinema: Mike Barker's A good woman / Raffaella Antinucci
  • The Duke's Versace sunglasses : Catholic piety and Italian otherness in Alex Cox's Revengers tragedy / Maria Serena Marchesi
  • Part IV. Contemporary perspectives. Seeking a "chance for a reawakening" : the 1970s in new Italian cinema / Emanuele D'Onofrio
  • Cities and landscapes: physical spaces and Topoi of identity in films by Giuseppe Tornatore and Carlo Mazzacurati / Maria Bonaria Urban
  • Body vs technology? myths and identity in Gabriele Salvatores's Nirvana / Paolo Russo
  • Epilogue / Pauline Small.