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  • Taboo Comedy

    Television and Controversial Humour

    Edited by Chiara Bucaria, Luca Barra ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and reality shows, and advertising) both on cable and network television. Whilst the focus is predominantly on the US and UK, the contributors also address more general and global issues and different ... Read more

    $32.09 CAD

  • A European Television Fiction Renaissance

    Premium Production Models and Transnational Circulation

    Edited by Luca Barra, Massimo Scaglioni ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Television Studies
    This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories.Combining a media-production approach with a textual and audience analysis, the volume offers a complex, stratified, systemic view of ongoing aesthetic, ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Italian Youth Television

    Edited by Luca Barra, Danielle Hipkins, Catherine O'Rawe, Dana Renga ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open-access volume is the first English-language study of the vibrant contemporary landscape of Italian youth-oriented television. TV shows addressed include internationally popular series such as SKAM Italia, Baby, Summertime, We Are Who We Are, Zero, Prisma, My Brilliant Friend, Mare Fuori, and many others. The collection explores the changing representation of young people, while ... Read more

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  • Italian Contemporary Screen Performers

    Training, Production, Prestige

    Edited by Luca Barra, Cristina Formenti, Mariapaola Pierini, Francesco Pitassio ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Bringing together performance studies, celebrity studies, and media production studies, this open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multi-layered condition of film and television performers within the contemporary Italian screen media landscape. By focusing on a selection of stars who reached success from 2000 onwards, the collection highlights how the renewal of the Italian ... Read more

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    Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture

    by Ellen Nerenberg ...
    A study of three high-profile Italian murder cases, how they were covered by the media, and what it all says about Italian culture.Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past twenty years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder ... Read more

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  • Translating Culture Specific References on Television

    The Case of Dubbing

    by Irene Ranzato ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Translating Culture Specific References on Television provides a model for investigating the problems posed by culture specific references in translation, drawing on case studies that explore the translational norms of contemporary Italian dubbing practices. This monograph makes a distinctive contribution to the study of audiovisual translation and culture specific references in its focus on ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies

    The Arts and History, Volume 2

    Edited by Graziella Parati ...
    Following the more theoretical first installment of New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies devoted to Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices, the second volume of New Perspectives deals with practicing cultural studies by offering articles that are valuable for both scholars of Italian studies and students interested in a cultural studies approach. Divided in four sections, the articles ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality

    by Robin Pickering-Iazzi ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    The past two decades have witnessed increasing opposition to mafia influence and activities in Italy. Community organizations such as Libera, founded in 1995, and Addiopizzo, originating in 2004, exemplify how Italian society has tried to come together to promote antimafia activities. The societal opposition to mafia influence continues to grow and the Internet has become a frontline in the battle ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Living Memory

    The Social Aesthetics of Language in a Northern Italian Town

    by Jillian R. Cavanaugh ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
    Living Memory investigates the complex question of language and its place at the heart of Bergamasco culture in northern Italy.• Integrates extensive participant observation with sociolinguistic data collection• Reveals the political and social dynamics of a national language (Italian) and a local dialect (Bergamasco) struggling for survival• Introduces the original concept of the “social ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Dramaturgy of Commedia dell'Arte

    by Olly Crick ...
    This book examines Commedia dell'Arte as a performative genre, and one that should be analysed through the framework of dramaturgy and dramaturgical practice.This volume examines the way Commedia has been explored in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and details its reinventors’ dramaturgic approaches, both focusing in on specific examples such as Jacques Lecoq, Dario Fo and Antonio Fava, ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema

    Edited by Danielle Hipkins, Roger Pitt ...
    Series Book 20 - Italian Modernities
    The figure of the child has long been a mainstay of Italian cinema, conventionally interpreted as a witness of adult shortcomings, a vessel of innocence, hope and renewal, or an avatar of nostalgia for the (cinematic) past. New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema challenges these settled categories of interpretation and reconsiders the Italian canon as it relates to the child. The book draws on ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Italian Trans Geographies

    Edited by Danila Cannamela, Marzia Mauriello, Summer Minerva ...
    Series series SUNY series in Italian/American Culture
    Provides a remapping of Italian and Italian American culture by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within Italy and along diasporic routes.How does the mapping of Italian culture change when it is charted from the perspective of gender-variant people? Italian Trans Geographies tackles this question by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within the Italian peninsula and along ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD