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

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

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dalle Vacche, Angela
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Italy > History.
Italians > Ethnic identity.
Italy > In motion pictures.
History
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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

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