Author: Mariagrazia Fanchi, Elena Mosconi

Year: 2002

Pages: 287

Publisher: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

ISBN: 8831780670

Series: Biblioteca di Bianco & Nero. Saggistica ; 9

Description

The social role of cinema, the rapport between Italian cinema and the country’s identity, consumption of popular genres and hero worship are covered with reference to films bearing signs of a symbolic and cultural heritage in the social and historic context, cinema as a means of socializing and bringing together private and public domains.