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The operatic and the everyday in post-war Italian film melodrama

Title
The operatic and the everyday in post-war Italian film melodrama [electronic resource] / Louis Bayman.
Author
Bayman, Louis.
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd., [2014]

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Description
1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations.
Summary
This book deals with melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to the re-establishment of the post-war Italian film industry, ensuring cinema's position at the forefront of 20th century mass culture. Melodrama interacts with the well-documented genres of neorealist and art cinema are well documented but it is through melodrama that one can discover most about national culture in Italy at this time, understand film's relationship to popular habits and ideas, and draw the true history of cinema. It connects less established areas of research such as popular neorealism to more well-known subjects such as domestic melodrama. It provides an analysis of cineopera or opera film. It helps to pioneer the area of popular Italian cinema. It contributes to both Italian Studies and Film --
Uniform Title
Operatic and the everyday in post-war Italian film melodrama (Online)
Alternative Title
Operatic and the everyday in post-war Italian film melodrama (Online)
Subject
  • Motion pictures > Italy > History
  • Melodrama in motion pictures
  • Melodrama, Italian
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214) and index.
  • Filmography: pages [187]-198.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
LCCN
2014431029
OCLC
ssj0001305755
Author
Bayman, Louis.
Title
The operatic and the everyday in post-war Italian film melodrama [electronic resource] / Louis Bayman.
Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd., [2014]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214) and index.
Filmography: pages [187]-198.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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