University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pages: 344
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-61147-566-1 • Hardback • November 2012 • $109.00 • (£84.00)
978-1-61147-567-8 • eBook • November 2012 • $103.50 • (£80.00)
Graziella Parati is the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Literature and Language and professor in the Comparative Literature and Women's and Gender Studies Programs at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
Contents
Graziella Parati “Cultural Critique and Italian Cultural Studies”
- Fiction
David Ward “Massimo D’Azeglio’s Ettore Fieramosca: The Necessity and the Joy of Fiction”
Roberto Derobertis “From Serie A to Serie Africa and Back: Soccer, Race, and the Making of an Italian Identity in Brizzi’s L’inattesa piega degli eventi”
Floriana Bernardi “Roberto Saviano: A Media Phenomenon to Recount the South”
Gabriella Turnaturi (Translated by Karina Mascorro and Marie Orton)
“The Invention of a Genre: The Mediterranean Noir”
Krešimir Purgar “Literature as Film: Strategy and Aesthetics of ‘Cinematic’ Narration in the Novel Io non ho paura by Niccolò Ammaniti”
- Film
Antonella Sisto “Dubbing for Real”
Eugenia Paulicelli “Cronaca di un amore: Fashion and Italian Cinema in Antonioni’s Films (1950-1955)”
Bernadette Luciano and Susanna Scarparo
“Contemporary Italian Women Filmmakers: Reframing the Past, The Present and Cinematic Tradition”
- The Arts
Elizabeth Mangini “Navigating a Cultural Chiasm: Giuseppe Penone’s Sculpture during the Anni di Piombo”
Malcolm Angelucci “Bolzano’s Monument to Victory: Rhetoric, Sacredness, and Profanation”
Alberto Bologna “The Cultural Contributions of Pier Luigi Nervi in the United States: 1952-1979”
- Fascism
Maria D’Anniballe “Form Follows Fiction: Redefining Urban Identity in Fascist Verona through the Lens of Hollywood’s Romeo and Juliet”
Victoria Belco “Reading Crime in Fascist Italy”
Eden Rebecca Knudsen “The Rhetoric of Race in Fascist Elementary Education”
“Enhanced with a usefully comprehensive index, New Perspectives in Italian cultural Studies: The Arts and History is a seminal work of collective scholarship and highly recommended for academic library Italian History & Contemporary Culture reference collections and supplemental reading lists.”
— Midwest Book Review