{"product_id":"italian-cinema-audiences-histories-and-memories-of-cinema-going-in-post-war-italy-paperback","title":"Italian Cinema Audiences: Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniela Treveri Gennari\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCatherine O'Rawe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDanielle Hipkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe know a lot about the directors and stars of Italian cinema's heyday, from Roberto Rossellini to Sophia Loren. But what do we know about the Italian audiences that went to see their films? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on the AHRC-funded project 'Italian Cinema Audiences 1945-60', \u003ci\u003eItalian Cinema Audiences: Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy\u003c\/i\u003edraws upon the rich data collected by the project team (160 video interviews and 1000+ written questionnaires gathered from Italians aged 65 and over; archival material related to cinema distribution, exhibition and programming, box-office figures, and critical discussions of cinema from film journals and popular magazines of the period). For the first time, cinema's role in everyday Italian life, and its affective meaning when remembered by older people, are enriched with industrial analyses of the booming Italian film sector of the period, as well as contextual data from popular and specialized magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniela Treveri Gennari\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK, with a research interest in audiences, popular cinema, film exhibition and programming. Amongst her recent publications: the edited volume \u003ci\u003eRural Cinema Exhibition and Audiences in a Global Context\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming 2018, with Catherine O'Rawe and Danielle Hipkins) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine O'Rawe \u003c\/b\u003eis Reader in Modern Italian Culture at the University of Bristol, UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eStars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema \u003c\/i\u003e(2014), co-author (with Jacqueline Reich) of \u003ci\u003eDivi: la mascolinità nel cinema italiano\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), and has published widely on gender and stardom in Italian post-war and contemporary cinema. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDanielle Hipkins \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Film at the University of Exeter, UK. She has published widely on gender representation in postwar Italian cinema, and has recently written \u003ci\u003eItaly's Other Women: Gender and prostitution in postwar Italian cinema, 1940-1965 \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) and co-edited \u003ci\u003eProstitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema: New takes on fallen women \u003c\/i\u003e(2017). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSilvia Dibeltulo\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Communication, Media and Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK, where she previously worked on the AHRC-funded Italian Cinema Audiences project and the BA\/Leverhulme-funded European Cinema Audiences project. Her publications the edited volume\u003ci\u003e Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming 2018, with Ciara Barrett). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Culhane \u003c\/b\u003eis currently a Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University, UK, working on the Italian Cinema Audiences follow on project, ICAMAP (2017-2018). ICAMAP is an online archive that allows users to explore the history of cinema-going in 1950s Italy. Her publications include 'Street Cries and Street Fights: Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren and the popolana' (\u003ci\u003eThe Italianist\u003c\/i\u003e, 2017).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099626344583,"sku":"9781501369339","price":77.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5cb6aafa65cbca11c96f7a6116ae928e.webp?v=1732376126","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/italian-cinema-audiences-histories-and-memories-of-cinema-going-in-post-war-italy-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}