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

by Anthony Grafton

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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"

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Education Education & Reference History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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