The Body in the Mirror : Shapes of History in Italian Cinema

Show other versions (1)

This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci. Here is a new kind of film history--a nonlinear, intertextual approach that confronts the total story of the growth of a national c...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dalle Vacche, Angela
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Italians > Ethnic identity.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Cinema > Italie > Histoire.
Motion pictures > Italy > History.
Italy.
Italy > In motion pictures.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Body in the Mirror
  • Chapter One. Fascism before World War I, after World War I, and after World War II
  • Chapter Two. Fascism after May 1968
  • Chapter Three. The Risorgimento before World War II
  • Chapter Four. The Risorgimento after World War II
  • Chapter Five. The Risorgimento after May 1968
  • Chapter Six. The Resistance after World War II and after May 1968
  • Chapter Seven. Antifascism after May 1968
  • Conclusion: Nouvelle Histoire, Italian Style
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Similar Items