Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West

by Anthony Grafton

Book Overview

Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself.??? The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032578
• ISBN13: 9780674032576
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.1"