(Wiley Blackwell Companions to National Cinemas) 1st Edition
by Frank Burke (Editor)
Written by leading figures in the field, A Companion to Italian Cinema
re-maps Italian cinema studies, employing new perspectives on
traditional issues, and fresh theoretical approaches to the exciting
history and field of Italian cinema.
- Offers new approaches to Italian cinema, whose importance in the post-war period was unrivalled
- Presents a theory based approach to historical and archival material
- Includes
work by both established and more recent scholars, with new takes on
traditional critical issues, and new theoretical approaches to the
exciting history and field of Italian cinema
- Covers recent
issues such as feminism, stardom, queer cinema, immigration and
postcolonialism, self-reflexivity and postmodernism, popular genre
cinema, and digitalization
- A comprehensive collection of essays
addressing the prominent films, directors and cinematic forms of
Italian cinema, which will become a standard resource for academic and
non-academic purposes alike
