TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giancarlo Lombardi
AU  - Christian Uva
PY  - 2016
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-9108
SN  - 9783035308150
TI  - Italian Political Cinema
T2  - Public Life, Imaginary, and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0815-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053550
N2  - Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed its longstanding engagement with questions of politics, both in the narrow definition of the term, and in a wider understanding that takes in reflections on public life, imaginary, and national identity. This book explores these political dimensions of contemporary Italian cinema by looking at three complementary strands: the thematics of contemporary political film from a variety of perspectives; the most prominent directors currently engaged in this filone; and case studies of the films that best represent this engagement. Conceived and edited by two Italian film scholars working in radically different academic settings, Italian Political Cinema brings together a wide array of critical positions and research from Italy, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The tripartite structure and international perspective create a volume that is an accessible entry-point into a subject that continues to attract critical and cultural attention, both inside and outside of academia.
KW  - Italian Political Cinema, Poltitical Engagement, Noir Style
LA  - English
ER  -