[ecrea] new book: Beauty and the Beast: Italianness in British Cinema

> Beauty and the Beast: Italianness in British Cinema
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> By Elisabetta Girelli
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> ISBN 9781841502441
> Paperback 240 pages 230x174mm
> Published: Available
> Price £19.95/$40
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> Recent years have seen an increased interest in issues of national identity
> and representation, and cinema is a major medium where strands and layers of
> representational systems come together in cross-cultural dialogues. Beauty
> and the Beast provides an account of the specific development of depictions
> of Italy and the Italians in British cinema. Girelli draws upon cultural and
> social history to assess the ongoing function of ?Italianness? in British
> film, and its crucial role in defining and challenging British national
> identity. Drawing on British literary and filmic tradition to analyse the
> rise of specific images of the Italian Other, this book makes original use
> of archival material such as WWII footage ­ and a selected corpus of
> significant British films.
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> This important publication will appeal to scholars of film and cultural
> history as well as to the discerning reader.
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> For further information or to request a review copy please contact:
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> James Campbell
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> Marketing & Publishing Assistant
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> (james /at/ intellectbooks.com)

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