Popular Italian Cinema: Culture and Politics in a Postwar Society

From The Spaghetti Western Database
Jump to: navigation, search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Full title: Popular Italian Cinema: Culture and Politics in a Postwar Society

  • Author: Flavia Brizio-Skov (editor)
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 283
  • ISBN: 1848855729
  • Publisher: IB Tauris
  • Publication date: 30 October 2011
  • Series: International Library of Visual Culture
Popular Italian Cinema Culture and Politics in a Postwar Society

Reader comments: under construction

Description:

With its monsters, vampires, and cowboys, Italian popular culture in the post-war period has generally been dismissed as a form of evasion or escapism. Here, four international scholars re-examine and reinterpret the era to show that popular Italian cinema was not only in tune with contemporary political and social trends, it also presaged the turmoil and rebellion of the 1960s and 1970s. Their analysis of peplum (or “sword and sandal”) films, horror films, spaghetti westerns, and comedy Italian-style shows how genre cinema reflected the changes wrought by modernization, urbanization, consumerist culture, and the sexual revolution. With striking insights into the links between popular culture and politics, this book will be indispensable for specialists in film and media studies, Italian and cultural studies, as well as social history.

About the author

Cookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies.