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Italian Studies / Italian Film

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Italian Film in the Present Tense

Italian Film in the Present Tense

by Millicent Marcus

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

Italian Neorealism

A Cultural History

by Charles L. Leavitt IV

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

Righteous Anger in Contemporary Italian Literary and Cinematic Narratives

by Stefania Lucamante

Price:

$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

Screening Religions in Italy

Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television in the Post-Secular Public Sphere

by Clodagh J. Brook

Price:

$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

Mafia Movies

A Reader, Second Edition

Edited by Dana Renga

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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

Golden Fruit

A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy

by Christina Mazzoni

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$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

Pasolini

The Sacred Flesh

by Stefania Benini

Price:

$81.00

ISBN: 9781442648067

Pub Date: September 2015

Benini illuminates the radical politics embedded within Pasolini’s adoption of Christian themes.

Fictions of Youth

Fictions of Youth

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Adolescence, Fascisms

by Simona Bondavalli

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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

Landscapes in Between

Environmental Change in Modern Italian Literature and Film

by Monica Seger

Price:

$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

The Sopranos

Born Under a Bad Sign

by Franco Ricci

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$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

Inspiring Fellini

Literary Collaborations Behind the Scenes

by Federico Pacchioni

Price:

$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

Federico Fellini

Painting in Film, Painting on Film

by Hava Aldouby

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$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

Unfinished Business

Screening the Italian Mafia in the New Millennium

by Dana Renga

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

The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod

Reflections of Cinema in Early Twentieth-Century Italy

by Michael Syrimis

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

Marco Bellocchio

The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere

by Clodagh Brook

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

Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz

by Millicent Marcus

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.

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