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Italian political cinema: Surveying a once glorious genre in times of anguish

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dc.contributor.authorTesta, Carlo
dc.date.accessioned2006-02-28T20:34:18Z
dc.date.available2006-02-28T20:34:18Z
dc.date.issued2006-02-28T20:34:18Z
dc.descriptionA paper presented in February 2005 to the colloquium.en_US
dc.description.abstractBecause in the Entralogos context I will dwell in some detail on the theoretical issues underpinning my interest in literature and culture, in the present pages I shall focus instead on some specific historical aspects of the dialectics between Italian society and Italian cinema. In particular, I shall concentrate on what it has become customary to describe by the term "political cinema," as well as some of its reverberations in a genre not normally associated with it: the "comedy Italian style." The two sections on cinema politico and commedia all'italiana will thus constitute the two main articulations of my argument. However, since I cannot assume a specific familiarity with post-WWII Italy among the interdisciplinary community of my readers, I shall introduce those two mini-chapters by a prologue presenting, in broad strokes, the relevant socio-historical context of the peninsula. At the end, I shall return to considerations of a more general cultural import about the challenges of the times in which we live.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipItalian Studies Colloquiumen_US
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/msword
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/2654
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectItalyen_US
dc.subjectPolitical Cinemaen_US
dc.subjectPasolinien_US
dc.subject1970sen_US
dc.titleItalian political cinema: Surveying a once glorious genre in times of anguishen_US
dc.typereporten_US

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