Italian Film

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Italian Film is written by Marcia Landy and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521640091 (ISBN 10) and 9780521640091 (ISBN 13).

Italian Film examines the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present. Analyzing film within the framework of Italy's historical, social, political, and cultural evolution during the twentieth century, Marcia Landy traces the construction of a coherent national cinema and its changes over time. Her study traces how social institutions--school, family, the Church--as well as Italian notions of masculinity and femininity are dealt with in cinema and how they are central to the conceptions (and misconceptions) of national identity.