Italian Film

Italian Film
ISBN-10
0521640091
ISBN-13
9780521640091
Category
Social Science
Pages
458
Language
English
Published
2000-04-13
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Marcia Landy

Description

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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