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Popular Italian cinema : culture and politics in a postwar society / edited by Flavia Brizio-Skov.

Contributor(s): Material type: Computer fileComputer file[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrationsISBN:
  • 085772097X
  • 9780755698295
  • 9780857720979
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43655094509045 22
Other classification:
  • 24.32
  • IV 3286
Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.

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