Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Early Italian Cinema Attractions
- 2 National History as Retrospective Illusion
- 3 Challenging the Folklore of Romance
- 4 Comedy and the Cinematic Machine
- 5 The Landscape and Neorealism, Before and After
- 6 Gramsci and Italian Cinema
- 7 History, Genre, and the Italian Western
- 8 La famiglia: The Cinematic Family and the Nation
- 9 A Cinema of Childhood
- 10 The Folklore of Femininity and Stardom
- 11 Conversion, Impersonation, and Masculinity
- 12 Cinema on Cinema and on Television
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Early Italian Cinema Attractions
- 2 National History as Retrospective Illusion
- 3 Challenging the Folklore of Romance
- 4 Comedy and the Cinematic Machine
- 5 The Landscape and Neorealism, Before and After
- 6 Gramsci and Italian Cinema
- 7 History, Genre, and the Italian Western
- 8 La famiglia: The Cinematic Family and the Nation
- 9 A Cinema of Childhood
- 10 The Folklore of Femininity and Stardom
- 11 Conversion, Impersonation, and Masculinity
- 12 Cinema on Cinema and on Television
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Italian Film , pp. 417 - 434Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000