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Italian Film in the Present Tense
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487546199
Pub Date: March 2023
This book explores the Italian film landscape with a focus on cinematic achievements of the twenty-first century.
Italian Neorealism
A Cultural History
Price:
$93.00
ISBN: 9781487507107
Pub Date: July 2020
This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism – an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class – through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.
Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives
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$93.00
ISBN: 9781487506889
Pub Date: March 2020
This book examines the many ways in which anger and indignation shape authorial intentions and determine the products of contemporary Italian artists.
Screening Religions in Italy
Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television in the Post-Secular Public Sphere
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$63.00
ISBN: 9781487503475
Pub Date: November 2019
This is the first book-length study to address the question of religion in contemporary Italian cinema and television. It questions why religion persists on Italian screens and how this reflects and constructs Italy’s emerging post-secularity.
Mafia Movies
A Reader, Second Edition
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$52.00
ISBN: 9781487520137
Pub Date: July 2019
Mafia Movies: A Reader provides incisive interpretations of over fifty films and television programs about the Italian and Italian-American Mafias.
Golden Fruit
A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy
Price:
$76.00
ISBN: 9781487502669
Pub Date: March 2018
Through close readings of key texts, including spiritual writings, fairy tales, and a botanical treatise, Golden Fruit examines the role of oranges in Italian culture from their introduction during the medieval period through to the present day.
Pasolini
The Sacred Flesh
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$81.00
ISBN: 9781442648067
Pub Date: September 2015
Benini illuminates the radical politics embedded within Pasolini’s adoption of Christian themes.
Fictions of Youth
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms
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$45.95
ISBN: 9781442627079
Pub Date: May 2015
Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema.
Landscapes in Between
Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film
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$68.00
ISBN: 9781442649194
Pub Date: January 2015
Landscapes in Between analyses Italian authors and filmmakers who turn to interstitial landscapes as productive models for coming to terms with the modified natural environment.
The Sopranos
Born Under a Bad Sign
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9781442615717
Pub Date: June 2014
In The Sopranos: Born under a Bad Sign, Franco Ricci presents an insightful analysis of the groundbreaking HBO series and its complex psychological themes
Inspiring Fellini
Literary Collaborations Behind the Scenes
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$45.95
ISBN: 9781442612921
Pub Date: January 2014
Pacchioni explores the dynamics of Fellini’s cinematic collaborations through analyses of the writers’ independently produced works, their contributions to the conceptualization of the films, and their conversations with Fellini himself, found in public and private archival sources.
Federico Fellini
Painting in Film, Painting on Film
Price:
$43.95
ISBN: 9781442613270
Pub Date: November 2013
Aldouby employs an innovative pictorial approach that allows her to uncover a wealth of visual evocations overlooked by Fellini scholars over the years.
Unfinished Business
Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9781442615588
Pub Date: August 2013
Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade.
The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod
Reflections of Cinema in Early Twentieth-Century Italy
Price:
$111.00
ISBN: 9781442644014
Pub Date: July 2012
The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod traces the encounter of Italy’s writers with cinema, and in doing so offers vibrant new perspectives on the country’s early twentieth-century culture.
Marco Bellocchio
The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere
Price:
$45.95
ISBN: 9780802096517
Pub Date: April 2010
Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the relationship between film tradition and contemporary culture, Marco Bellocchio touches on fundamental issues in film analysis.
Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz
Price:
$45.95
ISBN: 9780802091895
Pub Date: February 2009
Throughout the book, Marcus brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the question of how Italian filmmakers are confronting the Holocaust, and why now given the sparse output of Holocaust films produced in Italy from 1945 to the early 1990s.

Italian Film in the Present Tense
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487546199
Pub Date: March 2023
This book explores the Italian film landscape with a focus on cinematic achievements of the twenty-first century.
Italian Neorealism
A Cultural History
$93.00
ISBN: 9781487507107
Pub Date: July 2020
This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism – an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class – through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.
Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives
$93.00
ISBN: 9781487506889
Pub Date: March 2020
This book examines the many ways in which anger and indignation shape authorial intentions and determine the products of contemporary Italian artists.
Screening Religions in Italy
Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television in the Post-Secular Public Sphere
$63.00
ISBN: 9781487503475
Pub Date: November 2019
This is the first book-length study to address the question of religion in contemporary Italian cinema and television. It questions why religion persists on Italian screens and how this reflects and constructs Italy’s emerging post-secularity.
Mafia Movies
A Reader, Second Edition
$52.00
ISBN: 9781487520137
Pub Date: July 2019
Mafia Movies: A Reader provides incisive interpretations of over fifty films and television programs about the Italian and Italian-American Mafias.
Golden Fruit
A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy
$76.00
ISBN: 9781487502669
Pub Date: March 2018
Through close readings of key texts, including spiritual writings, fairy tales, and a botanical treatise, Golden Fruit examines the role of oranges in Italian culture from their introduction during the medieval period through to the present day.
Pasolini
The Sacred Flesh
$81.00
ISBN: 9781442648067
Pub Date: September 2015
Benini illuminates the radical politics embedded within Pasolini’s adoption of Christian themes.
Fictions of Youth
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442627079
Pub Date: May 2015
Fictions of Youth is a comprehensive examination of adolescence as an aesthetic, sociological, and ideological category in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s prose, poetry, and cinema.
Landscapes in Between
Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film
$68.00
ISBN: 9781442649194
Pub Date: January 2015
Landscapes in Between analyses Italian authors and filmmakers who turn to interstitial landscapes as productive models for coming to terms with the modified natural environment.
The Sopranos
Born Under a Bad Sign
$42.95
ISBN: 9781442615717
Pub Date: June 2014
In The Sopranos: Born under a Bad Sign, Franco Ricci presents an insightful analysis of the groundbreaking HBO series and its complex psychological themes
Inspiring Fellini
Literary Collaborations Behind the Scenes
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442612921
Pub Date: January 2014
Pacchioni explores the dynamics of Fellini’s cinematic collaborations through analyses of the writers’ independently produced works, their contributions to the conceptualization of the films, and their conversations with Fellini himself, found in public and private archival sources.
Federico Fellini
Painting in Film, Painting on Film
$43.95
ISBN: 9781442613270
Pub Date: November 2013
Aldouby employs an innovative pictorial approach that allows her to uncover a wealth of visual evocations overlooked by Fellini scholars over the years.
Unfinished Business
Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium
$42.95
ISBN: 9781442615588
Pub Date: August 2013
Unfinished Business is the first book to examine Italian mafia cinema of the past decade.
The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod
Reflections of Cinema in Early Twentieth-Century Italy
$111.00
ISBN: 9781442644014
Pub Date: July 2012
The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod traces the encounter of Italy’s writers with cinema, and in doing so offers vibrant new perspectives on the country’s early twentieth-century culture.
Marco Bellocchio
The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere
$45.95
ISBN: 9780802096517
Pub Date: April 2010
Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the relationship between film tradition and contemporary culture, Marco Bellocchio touches on fundamental issues in film analysis.
Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz
$45.95
ISBN: 9780802091895
Pub Date: February 2009
Throughout the book, Marcus brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the question of how Italian filmmakers are confronting the Holocaust, and why now given the sparse output of Holocaust films produced in Italy from 1945 to the early 1990s.