A Companion to Italian Cinema

<p>Written by leading figures in the field, <i>A Companion to Italian Cinema</i> re-maps Italian cinema studies, employing new perspectives on traditional issues, and fresh theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema.</p> <ul> <li>Offers new approaches to Italian cinema, whose importance in the post-war period was unrivalled</li> <li>Presents a theory based approach to historical and archival material</li> <li>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</li> <li>Covers recent issues such as feminism, stardom, queer cinema, immigration and postcolonialism, self-reflexivity and postmodernism, popular genre cinema, and digitalization</li> <li>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</li> </ul>