Italian Film (National Film Traditions) - Softcover

Landy, Marcia

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9780521649773: Italian Film (National Film Traditions)
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ISBN 10: 0521649773 ISBN 13: 9780521649773
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Italian Film examines the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present. Analyzing film within the framework of Italy's historical, social, political, and cultural evolution during the twentieth century, Marcia Landy traces the construction of a coherent national cinema and its changes over time. Her study traces how social institutions--school, family, the Church--as well as Italian notions of masculinity and femininity are dealt with in cinema and how they are central to the conceptions (and misconceptions) of national identity.

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About the Author

Marcia Landy is professor of English and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of several books, including Fascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema 1930-1943 (1986), Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama (1991), and British Genres: British Cinema and Society (1991).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521649773
ISBN 13 
9780521649773
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
460
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