[ecrea] New Publication Released: Requiem for a Nation - Religion and Politics in Post-War Italian Cinema (Mimesis International)

New Publication Released in paperback:

Requiem for a Nation - Religion and Politics in Post-War Italian Cinema
Edited by Roberto Cavallini
(Italian Frame book series, Mimesis International)

The primary objective of this collection is to examine the ways in which 
religion, culture and politics converge in configuring the 
contradictions of post-war Italy’s cultural history, starting from the 
assumption that conducting a critical reflection on Italian postwar 
visual culture requires investigating the inevitable impact of Catholic 
religion on everyday life in its social, political and cultural 
dimensions. The volume takes advantage of the privileged position of 
cinema to explore and critique religion’s influence on the Italian 
cultural landscape. This edited anthology thus seeks to probe how 
religion is experienced, practiced, criticized and represented from 
various methodological perspectives (historical, philological, 
aesthetic, psychoanalytical, popular studies, etc.) through four main 
sections: ‘Propaganda and Censorship’, ‘Framing Belief: Pasolini and 
Petri’, ‘Religion in Italian Popular Cinema’ and ‘Ancient Rituals, 
Modern Myths’.

Contributors: Roberto Cavallini, Roberto Chiesi, Silvia Dibeltulo, Juan 
Juvé, Fernando Pagnoni, Laura Rascaroli, Daniele Rugo, Tomaso Subini, 
Daniela Treveri Gennari, Fabio Vighi.

http://mimesisinternational.com/requiem-for-a-nation-religion-and-politics-in-post-war-italian-cinema/

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Requiem-Nation-Religion-Politics-Post-War/dp/8869770567/



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