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The operatic and the everyday in post-war Italian film melodrama /

This book deals with melodrama, the key cinematic form of post-war Italy. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to the re-establishment of the post-war Italian film industry, ensuring cinema's position at the forefront of 20th century mass culture. Melodrama inter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bayman, Louis
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Motion pictures > Italy > History. Melodrama in motion pictures. Melodrama, Italian.

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