Italian Political Cinema: Public Life Imaginary and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film

Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed its longstanding engagement with questions of politics, both in the narrow definition of the term, and in a wider understanding that takes in reflections on public life, imaginary, and national identity. This book explores these political dimensions of contemporary Italian cinema by looking at three complementary strands: the thematics of contemporary political film from a variety of perspectives; the most prominent directors currently engaged in this filone; and case studies of the films that best represent this engagement. Conceived and edited by two Italian film scholars working in radically different academic settings, Italian Political Cinema brings together a wide array of critical positions and research from Italy, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. The tripartite structure and international perspective create a volume that is an accessible entry-point into a subject that continues to attract critical and cultural attention, both inside and outside of academia.Additional ISBNs9783034322171, 9783035308150, 3034322178, 3035308152Italian Political Cinema: Public Life, Imaginary, and Identity in Contemporary Italian Film 1st Edition and published by Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Italian Political Cinema are 9783035395419, 3035395411 and the print ISBNs are 9783034322171, 3034322178. Additional ISBNs include 3034322178, 3035308152, 9783034322171, 9783035308150.