Italy on screen [electronic resource] : national identity and Italian imaginary / Lucy Bolton and Christina Siggers Manson (eds.).

Selected papers presented at the Italy on Screen Conference, held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, in 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Lucy Bolton -- Italian Imaginaries. Italy and lamerica: the road of remembrance / Cristiana Furlan -- The Italian comedy of the economic miracle: L'italiano medio and strategies of gender exclusion / Sergio Rigoletto -- Family life, Moretti style / Eleanor Andrews -- The Catholic Church. The Catholic Church in Il Bidone: salvation or wwindle? / Tim Cawkell -- Pasolini's deconstruction and reformulation of Italian Catholic identity in La ricotta / Erminia Passannanti -- Forbidden pleasures: voyeurism, showgirls and Catholicism in postwar cinema in Italy / Daniela Treveri Gennari -- Italy and Britain. Italian (re)settings in British Cinema: Mike Barker's A good woman / Raffaella Antinucci -- The Duke's Versace sunglasses : Catholic piety and Italian otherness in Alex Cox's Revengers tragedy / Maria Serena Marchesi -- Contemporary perspectives. Seeking a "chance for a reawakening" : the 1970s in new Italian cinema / Emanuele D'onofrio -- Cities and landscapes: physical spaces and Topoi of identity in films by Giuseppe Tornatore and Carlo Mazzacurati / Maria Bonaria Urban -- Body vs technology? myths and identity in Gabriele Salvatores's Nirvana / Paolo Russo -- Epilogue / Pauline Small.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.