[Commlist] New book: Italian Cinema Audiences

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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