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The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama

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The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama - Bayman, Louis
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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 ...

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The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama 2015, Edinburgh University Press

ISBN-13: 9781474402866

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The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama 2014, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

ISBN-13: 9780748656424

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