Beauty and the beast : Italianness in British cinema /

Recent years have seen an increased interest in issues of national identity and representation, and cinema is a major medium where strands and layers of representational systems come together in cross-cultural dialogues. Beauty and the Beast provides an account of the specific development of depicti...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Girelli, Elisabetta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2009.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Great Britain > History.
Italians in motion pictures.
Italians > Foreign public opinion, British.
National characteristics, Italian, in motion pictures.
Cinéma > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Italiens au cinéma.
DRAMA.
National characteristics, Italian, in motion pictures
Italians in motion pictures
Motion pictures
Italy > In motion pictures.
Great Britain
Italy
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • History and Representation of Italian Immigrants in Britain
  • Italianness in 1940s British Cinema
  • Italianness and Masculinity in 1950s British Cinema
  • The New Italian Glamour: Italian Film Stars in British Cinema from the Early 1950s to the Mid-1960s
  • Italianness, British Cinema, and Thatcherism.

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