Popular Italian cinema : culture and politics in a postwar society /
Popular Italian cinema : culture and politics in a postwar society /
edited by Flavia Brizio-Skov.
- First edition.
- London [England] : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2011.
- 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With its monsters, vampires and cowboys, Italian popular culture in the postwar period has generally been dismissed as a form of evasion or escapism. Here, four international scholars re-examine and reinterpret the era to show that popular Italian cinema was not only in tune with contemporary political and social trends, it also presaged the turmoil and rebellion of the 1960s and 1970s. Their analysis of peplum (or 'sword and sandal') films, horror films, spaghetti westerns and comedy Italian-style shows how genre cinema reflected the changes wrought by modernization, urbanization, consumerist.
085772097X 9780755698295 9780857720979
Motion pictures--Social aspects--Italy.
Motion pictures--History--Italy--20th century.
Cultural studies
791.43655094509045
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With its monsters, vampires and cowboys, Italian popular culture in the postwar period has generally been dismissed as a form of evasion or escapism. Here, four international scholars re-examine and reinterpret the era to show that popular Italian cinema was not only in tune with contemporary political and social trends, it also presaged the turmoil and rebellion of the 1960s and 1970s. Their analysis of peplum (or 'sword and sandal') films, horror films, spaghetti westerns and comedy Italian-style shows how genre cinema reflected the changes wrought by modernization, urbanization, consumerist.
085772097X 9780755698295 9780857720979
Motion pictures--Social aspects--Italy.
Motion pictures--History--Italy--20th century.
Cultural studies
791.43655094509045