Clodagh Brook

Screening Religions in Italy

Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television in the Post-Secular Public Sphere

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book-length study to address the question of religion in contemporary Italian cinema and television. It questions why religion persists on Italian screens and how this reflects and constructs Italyâ s emerging post-secularity.

Produktdetails

• Toronto Italian Studies
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781487503475
• ISBN-10: 1487503474
• Artikelnr.: 55503381

Autorenporträt

Clodagh J. Brook is associate professor and Head of Italian at Trinity College, Dublin.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Italy, Secularization, and the Post-Secular
1. The Space for Religious Filmmaking: Policy and Infrastructures
2. The Persistence of Religion Onscreen: Icons, Rituals, and the Arts
3. Countercultural Catholic Values in the Public Sphere
4. Protest in the Public Sphere: The Shifting Line between Religious and
Secular Space
5. Voicing the Religious Other: Assimilation, Horror, Resolution
Conclusion: Seeing is Believing: Italian Filmmaking Looks Post-Secularism
in the Eye
References
Filmography
Index