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  • Rome, Postmodern Narratives of a Cityscape

    by Dom Holdaway ...
    Series series Warwick Series in the Humanities
    Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in terms of its classical past or as a stop on the Grand Tour. This collection of essays looks at Rome from a postmodern perspective, including analysis of the city's 'unmappability', its fragmented narratives and its iconic status in literature and film. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Queering Italian Media

    by Sole Anatrone, Julia Heim, Dom Holdaway, Luca Malici, Alessia Palanti, Alessio Ponzio ...
    Queering Italian Media analyzes and offers queer readings of LGBTQIA+ representation in Italian media. The contributors apply various understandings of "queer" and "media" as they discuss the relationship between the political and social lives of queer populations in Italy and investigate their representations in film, news media, television, social media, and viewer-generated media sites. ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

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    Literary Constructions of Space

    by Silvia M. Ross ...
    An important locus for English-speaking writers, the region of Tuscany is also well represented in the Italian literary canon. In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single ... Read more

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  • The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

    A Bloody Journey

    by Barbara Pezzotti ...
    By taking as its point of departure the privileged relationship between the crime novel and its setting, this book is the most wide-ranging examination of the way in which Italian detective fiction in the last twenty years has become a means to articulate the changes in the social landscape of the country. Nowadays there is a general acknowledgment of the importance of place in Italian crime ... Read more

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  • Italian Crime Fiction

    Edited by Giuliana Pieri ...
    Series series International Crime Fictions
    Iberian Crime Fiction is the first volume in English to provide an extensive overview of crime fiction in Spain and Portugal. While the origins of peninsular crime fiction are traced in Nancy Vosburg's introductory chapter to the volume, the essays focus on specific topics that provide readers with a sense of the development of the genre in the second half of the 20th-century and current trends in ... Read more

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  • Marco Bellocchio

    The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere

    by Clodagh Brook ...
    Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's films. Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Living Memory

    The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town

    by Jillian R. Cavanaugh ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
    Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.• Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection• Reveals the political and social dynamics of a national language (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling for survival• Introduces the original concept of the “social ... Read more

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  • Urban Narratives and the Spaces of Rome

    Pier Paolo Pasolini and the City

    by Gregory Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City
    This book foregrounds the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini to study the Roman periphery and examine the relevance of Pasolini’s vision in the construction of subaltern identity and experience. It analyses the contemporary Italian society to understand the problem of social exclusion of marginal communities.Narrative studies are at the core of the contemporary social science research. This book uses ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies

    The Arts and History, Volume 2

    Edited by Graziella Parati ...
    Following the more theoretical first installment of New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies devoted to Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices, the second volume of New Perspectives deals with practicing cultural studies by offering articles that are valuable for both scholars of Italian studies and students interested in a cultural studies approach. Divided in four sections, the articles ... Read more

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  • New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies

    Definition, Theory, and Accented Practices, Volume 1

    Edited by Graziella Parati ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies
    New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies. Volume 1: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices is a collection of essays that identifies a number of different approaches in cultural studies and in Italian cultural studies in particular. It highlights that history of cultural studies and new developments in the field as well focuses on practicing cultural studies with essays devoted to Italian ... Read more

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  • The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film

    by Barbara Alfano ...
    The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film explores the use of images associated with the United States in Italian novels and films released between the 1980s and the 2000s. In this study, Barbara Alfano looks at the ways in which the individuals portrayed in these works – and the intellectuals who created them – confront the cultural construct of the American myth. As ... Read more

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  • Marvelous Bodies

    Italy's New Migrant Cinema

    by Vetri Nathan ...
    Series Book 70 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    Historically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred destination for immigrants from the global South. Life in the land of la dolce vita has not seemed so sweet recently, as Italy struggles with the cultural challenges caused by this surge in immigration. Marvelous Bodies by Vetri Nathan explores thirteen key full-length Italian films ... Read more

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