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  • Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinema and Television

    by Flavia Laviosa ...
    Series series Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media
    The Naples-born director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino has, to date, written and directed nine films, winning an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe for The Great Beauty in 2013. In 2016, he created and directed his first TV series, The Young Pope, which starred Jude Law. John Malkovich joined the cast in 2020 for the follow-up series. He has established himself as a world-leading auteur with a ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda

    A Political History of Italian Food TV

    by Francesco Buscemi, Flavia Laviosa ...
    Series series Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media
    This book aims to develop a political history of Italian ‘good food’ on national television, and the central role of food in Italian culture. The focus is highly original and this is a unique interdisciplinary study at the intersection between food studies, media studies and politics.The three protagonists of Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda are food, television and politics. These are the three main ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

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    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

    $62.99 USD

  • 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

    $109.39 USD

  • 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

    $34.00 USD

  • A Very Seductive Body Politic

    Silvio Berlusconi in Cinema

    by Nicoletta Marini Maio ...
    This volume maps the multilayered narratives created in cinema on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a means of exploring the ageof Berlusconismo. The analysis crosses chronological and generic boundaries, stretching back to the comedy Italian style, which foreshadows the symbolic meanings incarnated by Berlusconi before he actually entered the public stage. The book delineates a comprehensive ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A History of Italian Cinema

    by Dr Peter Bondanella, Professor Federico Pacchioni ...
    A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni reorganize the current History in order to keep the book fresh and responsive not only to the actual ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Why Architects Still Draw

    by Paolo Belardi ...
    Translated by Zachary Nowak ...
    An architect's defense of drawing as a way of thinking, even in an age of electronic media.Why would an architect reach for a pencil when drawing software and AutoCAD are a click away? Use a ruler when 3D-scanners and GPS devices are close at hand? In Why Architects Still Draw, Paolo Belardi offers an elegant and ardent defense of drawing by hand as a way of thinking. Belardi is no Luddite; he ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Parallel Presents

    The Art of Pierre Huyghe

    by Amelia Barikin ...
    The first book-length art historical examination of a major contemporary French artist.Over the past two decades, French artist Pierre Huyghe has produced an extraordinary body of work in constant dialogue with temporality. Investigating the possibility of a hypothetical mode of timekeeping—“parallel presents”—Huyghe has researched the architecture of the incomplete, directed a puppet opera, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Federico Fellini

    Painting in Film, Painting on Film

    by Hava Aldouby ...
    Federico Fellini professed a desire to create “an entire film made of immobile pictures.” In this study, Hava Aldouby uses this quotation as a launching point to analyze Fellini’s films as sequences of “pictures” that draw extensively on art history, and particularly painting, as a reservoir of visual imagery. Aldouby employs an innovative pictorial approach that allows her to uncover a wealth of ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Italian Neorealist Cinema

    An Aesthetic Approach

    by Christopher Wagstaff ...
    The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence on filmmakers around the world. Wagstaff treats these films as assemblies of sounds and images rather than as representations of historical reality. If Roberto Rossellini's Roma città aperta and Paisà, ... Read more

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  • The Methodologies of Art

    An Introduction

    by Laurie Schneider Adams ...
    Since the nineteenth century, when art history became an established academic discipline, works of art have been 'read' in a variety of ways. These different ways of describing and interpreting art are the methodologies of artistic analysis, the divining rods of meaning. Regardless of a work's perceived difficulty, an art object is, in theory, complex. Every work of art is an expression of its ... Read more

    $69.99 USD