Popular Italian Cinema - by L Bayman & S Rigoletto (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning of popular cinema in Italy to give a sense of its complexity and specificity in Italian cinema, from early to contemporary cinema.

Review Quotes

'This volume really does represent a shift in thinking on Italian cinema, and the many fine, young scholars who contribute to this book show the direction that future criticism of Italian film will take. It is a valuable contribution to cinema studies on many levels, and I was delighted to have read it.' - Peter Bondanella, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Film Studies and Italian, Indiana University, USA

About the Author

RÉKA BUCKLEY Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK RICHARD DYER teaches Film Studies at King's College London and St. Andrews University, UK ROSALIND GALT Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK MARK GOODALL Senior Lecturer at the University of Bradford, UK IRENE LOTTINI teaches Italian language and Italian cinema at the University of Iowa, USA TAMAO NAKAHARA ALEX MARLOW-MANN Research Co-ordinator at the Centre for Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK DANIEL O'BRIEN Freelance writer and teacher, UK ALAN O'LEARY University of Leeds, UK MARIA FRANCESCA PIREDDA Lecturer in Cinema History, Catholic University of Milan and University of Bologna, Italy CHRISTOPHER WAGSTAFF Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Reading, UK