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[Commlist] New book: Italian Cinema Audiences

Wed Oct 07 12:07:45 GMT 2020




Danielle Hipkins, Catherine O’Rawe, Daniela Treveri Gennari, Sarah Culhane and Silvia Dibeltulo are pleased to announce our new jointly-authored monograph, /Italian Cinema Audiences: Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy /(Bloomsbury 2020).//

The volume stems from the AHRC-funded project (2013-2016) /Italian Cinema Audiences 1945-60/, and draws upon the rich data collected (160 video interviews and 1000+ written questionnaires; archival material related to cinema distribution, exhibition and programming, box-office figures, and critical discussions of cinema from film journals and popular magazines of the period) in order to investigate cinema's role in everyday Italian life.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/italian-cinema-audiences-9781501347696/

Danielle Hipkins, Catherine O’Rawe, Daniela Treveri Gennari, Sarah Culhane and Silvia Dibeltulo


Table of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements

Foreword by Professor Martin Barker

Introduction

Part I. THE ACTIVITY OF CINEMA-GOING
1. Cinemas, exhibition practices and topographical memories
2. Only entertainment?: memories inside and outside the cinema

Part II. FILMS: GENRE, TASTE, AND POPULAR MEMORY
3. Audiences and film genre

4. 'Back then I believed in the nation - I don't anymore': re-visiting national film canon through audience memories

Part III. GENDER AND CINEMA-GOING
5. A girls' eye view of post-war Italian cinema
6. Beyond 'belle e brave': female stars and audiences
7. Narrative imaginings of masculinity through cinema

Conclusions

Appendix 1: Questionnaire
Appendix 2: Video-Interview
Appendix 3: List of Thematic Areas
Bibliography
Index
Reviews

“This book is a “master class” in exploring the historical culture of moviegoing in postwar Italy. Using an innovative suite of research methods drawn from the “New Cinema History,” and featuring fascinating ethnographic studies, the authors chart the vibrancy of film attendance as the cultural lynch-pin of Italy in the rapidly changing 1950s. They uncover the tensions pitting local against national and systems of film distribution, and gendered dialogues about differences and similarities between Italian and Hollywood star culture. The Italian Cinema Audiences project expertly demonstrates how post-war Italy's diverse publics were drawn together into complex communities of entertainment, at a time when discussion of who was allowed to attend the movies was being negotiated and challenged across the nation.” – Kathy Fuller-Seeley, William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Media Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA

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