The operatic and the everyday in post-war Italian film melodrama /:

This book deals with melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to the re-establishment of the post-war Italian film industry, ensuring cinema's position at the forefront of 20th century mass culture. Melodrama inte...

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Main Author: Bayman, Louis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:This book deals with melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to the re-establishment of the post-war Italian film industry, ensuring cinema's position at the forefront of 20th century mass culture. Melodrama interacts with the well-documented genres of neorealist and art cinema are well documented but it is through melodrama that one can discover most about national culture in Italy at this time, understand film's relationship to popular habits and ideas, and draw the true history of cinema. It connects less established areas of research such as popular neorealism to more well-known subjects such as domestic melodrama. It provides an analysis of cineopera or opera film. It helps to pioneer the area of popular Italian cinema. It contributes to both Italian Studies and Film.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214) and index.
Filmography: pages 187-198.
ISBN:9780748656431
074865643X
1306892023
9781306892025
9781474402873
1474402879
9781474400947
1474400949

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