A Companion to Italian Cinema

Offers new approaches to Italian cinema, whose importance in the post-war period was unrivalledPresents a theory based approach to historical and archival materialIncludes 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 cinemaCovers recent issues such as feminism, stardom, queer cinema, immigration and postcolonialism, self-reflexivity and postmodernism, popular genre cinema, and digitalizationA 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