TY  - DATA
AU  - Brizio-Skov,Flavia
TI  - Popular Italian cinema: culture and politics in a postwar society 
SN  - 085772097X
U1  - 791.43655094509045 22
PY  - 2019///
CY  - [London, England]
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - bicssc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755698295?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
ER  -