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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.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Toronto Italian studies
Toronto Italian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Motion pictures -- Italy.
Motion pictures.
Italy.
Television programs -- Italy.
Television programs.
Religion in motion pictures.
Religion in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Brook, Clodagh J. Screening religions in Italy. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2019 1487503474 (OCoLC)1089007692
ISBN 9781487518004 (electronic book)
1487518005 (electronic book)
1487503474
9781487503475