Popular Italian Cinema

1. The Fair and the Museum: Framing the Popular
Louis Bayman, Sergio Rigoletto

2. Italian Cinema, Popular?
Christopher Wagstaff

3. The Prettiness of Italian Cinema
Rosalind Galt

4. The Pervasiveness of Song in Italian Cinema
Richard Dyer

5. Melodrama as Seriousness
Louis Bayman

6. Moving Masculinity: Incest Narratives in Italian Sex Comedies
Tamao Nakahara

7. Laughter and the Popular in Lina Wertmüller’s The Seduction of Mimì
Sergio Rigoletto

8. Strategies of Tension: Towards a Reinterpretation of Enzo G. Castellari’s The Big Racket and The Italian Crime Film
Alex Marlow-Mann

9. ‘Il delirio del lungo metraggio’: Cinema as Mass Phenomenon in Early Twentieth-Century Italian Culture
Irene Lottini

10. Dressing the Part: ‘Made in Italy’ Goes to the Movies with Lucia Bosé in Chronicle of a Love Affair
Réka Buckley

11. Hercules versus Hercules: Variation and Continuation in Two Generations of Heroic Masculinity
Daniel O’Brien

12. On the Complexity of the Cinepanettone
Alan O’Leary

13. Cinema and Popular Preaching: the Italian Missionary Film and Fiamme
Maria Francesca Piredda

14. Dolce e Selvaggio: The Italian Mondo Documentary Film
Mark Goodall

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, European Cinema, Film History, Film and Television Studies, Genre