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A Companion to Italian Cinema
Edited by Frank Burke
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Book Presentation:
Written by leading figures in the field, A Companion to Italian Cinema re-maps Italian cinema studies, employing new perspectives on traditional issues, and fresh theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema.
Offers new approaches to Italian cinema, whose importance in the post-war period was unrivalled
Presents a theory based approach to historical and archival material
Includes work by both established and more recent scholars, with new takes on traditional critical issues, and new theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema
Covers recent issues such as feminism, stardom, queer cinema, immigration and postcolonialism, self-reflexivity and postmodernism, popular genre cinema, and digitalization
A comprehensive collection of essays addressing the prominent films, directors and cinematic forms of Italian cinema, which will become a standard resource for academic and non-academic purposes alike
About the Author:
Frank Burke is Professor Emeritus of Film at Queen's University, Canada. He is the author of Fellini's Films: From Postwar to Postmodern (1996) and Federico Fellini: Variety Lights to Dolce Vita (1984) and has co-edited Federico Fellini: Contemporary Perspectives (with Marguerite R. Waller, 2002). He has produced over 100 publications, keynote addresses, invited lectures, and special sessions on Italian and North American cinema, and has edited for the Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory and Literature/Film Quarterly.
See the publisher website: Wiley-Blackwell
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A Companion to Federico Fellini (2025)
Dir. Frank Burke, Marguerite Waller and Marita Gubareva
Subject: Director > Federico Fellini
Fellini's Films and Commercials (2020)
From Postwar to Postmodern
by Frank Burke
Subject: Director > Federico Fellini
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Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema (2019)
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The Transatlantic Gaze (2014)
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Fame Amid the Ruins (2025)
Italian Film Stardom in the Age of Neorealism
The Celluloid Atlantic (2025)
Hollywood, Cinecittà, and the Making of the Cinema of the West, 1943–1973
Traveling Auteurs (2024)
The Geopolitics of Postwar Italian Cinema
Darkening the Italian Screen II (2023)
Interviews with Genre and Exploitation Directors Who Debuted in the 1970s
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