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082 _a791.43655094509045
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084 _a24.32
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084 _aIV 3286
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245 _aPopular Italian cinema :
_bculture and politics in a postwar society /
_cedited by Flavia Brizio-Skov.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aLondon [England] :
_bI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,
_c2011.
264 _a[London, England] :
_bBloomsbury Publishing,
_c2019.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) :
_billustrations.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aWith 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.
650 _aMotion pictures
_xSocial aspects
_zItaly.
_917986
650 _aMotion pictures
_zItaly
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_917987
650 _aCultural studies
_2bicssc
_917988
700 1 _aBrizio-Skov, Flavia,
_eeditor.
_917989
856 _3Abstract with links to full text
_uhttps://doi.org/10.5040/9780755698295?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
942 _cEBK
999 _c13193
_d13193