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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Contexts
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Front Matter
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
"Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space offers a rich history of Italian comedies during the 'boom years' of the mid-century. This eminently readable study is timely in its appearance and will join in the debate concerning not only the way the field of Italian Screen Studies is constituted, but also - and significantly - how it is taught. This book will also join explorations of Italian cinema that take into account gender as a constitutive and conditioning element. I suspect that scholars will find the book rife with useful information, thought-provoking, and very, very teachable." - Ellen Nerenberg, Hollis Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, Wesleyan University, USA
"This book makes a ground-breaking contribution both to Italian film history, and to wider debates in Film Studies on genre, gender and space. Its novel focus on interactions of gender and space within a large corpus of films demonstrates how Comedy, Italian style participates in social change. Rich in detailed analysis of stardom and performance, it challenges entrenched critical ideas in an exciting re-evaluation of one of Italy's most celebrated film genres." - Catherine O'Rawe, Senior Lecturer, Italian Cinema, University of Bristol, UK
"Fullwood's study looks carefully at a genre that has, in a sense, been hiding in plain sight. While there have been isolated attempts to study the commedia all'italiana, this book combines an encyclopedic knowledge of the films themselves with a historical and theoretical precision that allows us to understand this body of filmmaking as an index of historical change and a vital site of ideological conflict." - John David Rhodes, Lecturer, Film Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space
Book Subtitle: Comedy, Italian Style
Authors: Natalie Fullwood
Series Title: Screening Spaces
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137403575
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40356-8Published: 05 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48704-2Published: 05 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40357-5Published: 05 March 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 260
Topics: European Cinema and TV, Film History, Gender Studies