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Author Brook, Clodagh J., author.

Title Screening religions in Italy : contemporary Italian cinema and television fiction in the post-secular public sphere / Clodagh J. Brook
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Series Toronto Italian studies
Toronto Italian studies.
Contents Ntroduction: Italy, Secularization, and the Post-Secular -- 1. The Space for Religious Filmmaking: Policy and Infrastructures -- 2. The Persistence of Religion Onscreen: Icons, Rituals, and the Arts -- 3. Countercultural Catholic Values in the Public Sphere -- 4. Protest in the Public Sphere: The Shifting Line between Religious and Secular Space -- 5. Voicing the Religious Other: Assimilation, Horror, Resolution -- Conclusion: Seeing is Believing: Italian Filmmaking Looks Post-Secularism in the Eye
Summary "This is the first book-length study to address the question of religion in contemporary Italian cinema and television. It questions why religion persists on Italian screens and how this reflects and constructs Italy's emerging post-secularity."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Motion pictures -- Italy.
Television programs -- Italy
Religion in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Motion pictures
Religion in motion pictures
Television programs
Italy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781487518004
1487518005