Requiem for a nation
eBook - ePub

Requiem for a nation

Religion and Politics in Post War Italian Cinema

  1. 156 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Requiem for a nation

Religion and Politics in Post War Italian Cinema

About this book

The primary objective of this collection is to examine the ways in which religion, culture and politics converge in configuring the contradictions of post-war Italy's cultural history, starting from the assumption that conducting a critical reflection on Italian postwar visual culture requires investigating the inevitable impact of Catholic religion on everyday life in its social, political and cultural dimensions. The volume takes advantage of the privileged position of cinema to explore and critique religion's influence on the Italian cultural landscape. This edited anthology thus seeks to probe how religion is experienced, practiced, criticized and represented from various methodological perspectives (historical, philological, aesthetic, psychoanalytical, popular studies, etc.) through four main sections: 'Propaganda and Censorship', 'Framing Belief: Pasolini and Petri', 'Religion in Italian Popular Cinema' and 'Ancient Rituals, Modern Myths'.

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Information

Publisher
Mimesis International
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9788869771156
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. To My Nation
  2. Introduction
  3. Propaganda and censorship
  4. Pastor Angelicus as a Political Text
  5. Censorship Italian Style
  6. Framing belief Pasolini and Petri
  7. An Immanent Sublime
  8. Belief as Fetish
  9. Religion in Italian Popular Cinema
  10. For a Politics of Comic Immanence
  11. Religious Politics of Gender Oppression in Il Demonio (1963) and Non si sevizia un paperino (1972)
  12. Ancient rituals, modern myths
  13. Rituals in an Archaic Italy
  14. The End Goes On…
  15. Notes on contributors