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Very Seductive Body Politic
Nicoletta Marini-Mai
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Paperback. This book maps the multilayered narratives that the cinema has created on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a powerful means to explore the age of Berlusconismo. Navigating through the surplus of meanings assigned to the Italian political leader by the texts and practices circulating in Italian society, this investigation privileges a horizon of anal Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; APFA; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
This volume maps the multilayered narratives created in cinema on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a means of exploring the age of Berlusconismo. The analysis crosses chronological and generic boundaries, stretching back to the comedy Italian style, which foreshadows the symbolic meanings incarnated by Berlusconi before he actually entered the public stage. The book delineates a comprehensive cinematic corpus and focuses on a selection of narrative and documentary films, from the proto-Berlusconi everyman of La più bella serata della mia vita (The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life, 1972) by Ettore Scola, to the Berlusconi pretext for political self-reflection of ... Read more
This volume maps the multilayered narratives created in cinema on and around Silvio Berlusconi as a means of exploring the age of Berlusconismo. The analysis crosses chronological and generic boundaries, stretching back to the comedy Italian style, which foreshadows the symbolic meanings incarnated by Berlusconi before he actually entered the public stage. The book delineates a comprehensive cinematic corpus and focuses on a selection of narrative and documentary films, from the proto-Berlusconi everyman of La più bella serata della mia vita (The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life, 1972) by Ettore Scola, to the Berlusconi pretext for political self-reflection of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Mimesis International Italy
Number of pages
110
Condition
New
Number of Pages
118
Place of Publication
MI, Italy
ISBN
9788857526683
SKU
V9788857526683
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About Nicoletta Marini-Mai
Nicoletta Marini-Maio is Associate Professor of Italian and Film Studies at Dickinson College, USA, and Editor of the scholarly international journal gender/sexuality/italy. Her research centers on the intersections between politics, historical narrative and fiction, cultural discourse, and gender in Italian film and theater. She has published articles on the years of lead, coming of age, and auteur cinema. Her publications ... Read more
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