Popular Italian Cinema

'This volume really does represent a shift in thinking on Italian cinema, and the many fine, young scholars who contribute to this book show the direction that future criticism of Italian film will take. It is a valuable contribution to cinema studies on many levels, and I was delighted to have read it.' - Peter Bondanella, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Film Studies and Italian, Indiana University, USA

REKA BUCKLEY Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK RICHARD DYER teaches Film Studies at King's College London and St. Andrews University, UK ROSALIND GALT Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK MARK GOODALL Senior Lecturer at the University of Bradford, UK IRENE LOTTINI teaches Italian language and Italian cinema at the University of Iowa, USA TAMAO NAKAHARA ALEX MARLOW-MANN Research Co-ordinator at the Centre for Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK DANIEL O'BRIEN Freelance writer and teacher, UK ALAN O'LEARY University of Leeds, UK MARIA FRANCESCA PIREDDA Lecturer in Cinema History, Catholic University of Milan and University of Bologna, Italy CHRISTOPHER WAGSTAFF Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Reading, UK

List of Figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements The Fair and the Museum: Framing the Popular; S.Rigoletto & L.Bayman Italian Cinema, Popular?; C.Wagstaff The Prettiness of Italian Cinema; R.Galt The Pervasiveness of Song in Italian Cinema; R.Dyer Melodrama as Seriousness; L.Bayman Moving Masculinity: Incest Narratives in Italian Sex Comedies; T.Nakahar Laughter and the Popular in Lina Wertmuller's The Seduction of Mimi; S.Rigoletto Strategies of Tension: Towards a Re-Interpretation of Enzo G. Castellari's The Big Racket and The Italian Crime Film; A.Marlow-Mann 'Il delirio del lungo metraggio': Cinema as Mass Phenomenon in Early Twentieth Tentury Italian Cinema; I.Lottini Dressing the Part: 'Made in Italy' Goes to the Movies with Lucia Bose in Chronicle of a Love Affair; R.Buckley Hercules versus Hercules: Variation and Continuation in Two Generations of Heroic Masculinity; D.O'Brien On the Complexity of Cinepanettone; A.O'Leary Cinema and Popular Preaching: the Italian Missionary Film and Fiamme; F.Piredda The Italian Mondo Documentary Film; M.Goodall Index