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OverviewSince its inception in the mid-1950s, the television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society, with a steadily increasing supply of locally produced domestic dramas offering up competing versions of Italian identity. Informed by the nation’s rich historical and cultural heritage—as well as a string of notable foreign imports—the narratives discussed here offer much insight into Italian society and highlight the wide array of television programming available outside of Britain and the United States. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Milly Buonanno (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)Publisher: Intellect Books Imprint: Intellect Books Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.445kg ISBN: 9781841504599ISBN 10: 1841504599 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 15 May 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Building the Nation. The Origins of Italian TV Drama Chapter 2: The Cinematic Turn and the Americanization of the Television Landscape Chapter 3: The Political Career of a Popular Fiction: La Piovra Chapter 4: A Place in the Sun: The First Italian Soap Opera Chapter 5: Mimetic Hereos and Ironic Leaders: The genesis and evolution of Italian police drama Chapter 6: In the Footsteps of La Piovra: Twenty years of mafia stories in Italian TV drama Chapter 7: Life Stories: A Heroic Enclave and the Rise of the Religious Biopic Chapter 8: The Re-enactment of the Past and the Politics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary DramaReviews'In this wonderful book, Milly Buonanno has achieved the difficult mandate that a study of a medium must also be a study of a whole way of life. Italian TV Drama and Beyond shows that television is just as tied up in Italy's long legacy of style and creativity as its cuisine, fashion, and landscape.' - John Durham Peters, University of Iowa 'Milly Buonanno has long been concerned with the development of European storytelling on the small screen. Here, she brings considerable scholarship, sophistication and sympathy to a highly compelling and warmly recommended study of national and non-national fiction in Italy since the 1950s ' - Albert Moran, Griffith University, Brisbane 'In this scintillating and original study of Italian television drama, Milly Buonanno develops a brilliant and compelling account of a relatively unknown body of televisual texts that will be required reading for scholars and students of television and the mass media everywhere.' - Stephen Gundle, University of Warwick Author InformationMilly Buonanno is Professor of Television studies at the University of Rome La Sapienza and former Dean of the Faculty of Media and Journalism at the University of Firenze. In addition she is Director of the Advanced Laboratory for Creation and Production of Television Drama at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography, and Director of the Observatory for Italian Television Drama. She has written and edited many books, some of them translated into English and Spanish, and has published essays and articles in numerous foreign journals. She is a member of the editorial board of several international academic journals in Europe and in North and South America. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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