{"product_id":"stardom-italian-style-screen-performance-and-personality-in-italian-cinema-paperback","title":"Stardom, Italian Style: Screen Performance and Personality in Italian Cinema - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcia Landy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcia Landy examines the history of Italian celebrity culture and ponders the changing qualities of stardom in the 20th and 21st centuries. She considers the historical conditions for the rise of stardom in the context of various media, from the silent era to contemporary media, tracking how stardom shapes national and international identities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe phenomenon of the diva in the early European cinema, the invention of new stars in the sound cinema, the postwar impact on stardom through the introduction of changing forms of narration in popular genres, and the contributions to the changing faces of stardom through the films and the personas of such \u003ci\u003eauteurs\u003c\/i\u003e as Rosselini, Visconti, Fellini, and Pasolini are examined in \u003ci\u003eStardom, Italian Style.\u003c\/i\u003e Landy's genealogy of Italian star images identifies their connections to social history, landscape and geography, conceptions of femininity and masculinity, the physical and virtual body, regionalism, technology, and leisure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcia Landy is Distinguished Service Professor of English\/Film Studies with a secondary appointment in the Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Her books include \u003ci\u003eMonty Python's Flying Circus; Stars\u003c\/i\u003e (edited with Lucy Fischer); \u003ci\u003eThe Historical Film; Italian Film; Queen Christina \u003c\/i\u003e(with Amy Villarejo); and \u003ci\u003eFascism in Film: The Italian Commercial Cinema, 1931-1943.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9.09 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 27, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42104271896656,"sku":"9780253220080","price":61.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/VHdSYWErRUNIWHh6aWFuY2pLZVlIZz09.webp?v=1772186447","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/stardom-italian-style-screen-performance-and-personality-in-italian-cinema-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}