1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008797150403321

Autore

Ekins, Richard

Titolo

Male femaling : a grounded approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing / Richard Ekins ; foreword by Anselm Strauss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Routledge, 1997

ISBN

0415106249

Descrizione fisica

xv, 185 p. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

306.77

Locazione

DMNUP

Collocazione

G 1/24

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780927503321

Autore

Girelli Elisabetta

Titolo

Beauty and the beast [[electronic resource] ] : Italianness in British cinema / / Elisabetta Girelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Chicago, IL, : Intellect, 2009

ISBN

1-282-45565-6

9786612455650

1-84150-303-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Disciplina

791.4365845

808.823

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Great Britain - History

Italians in motion pictures

Italians - Foreign public opinion, British

Italy In motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Abstract; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: History and Representation of Italian Immigrants in Britain; Chapter 2: Italianness in 1940's British Cinema; Chapter 3: Italianness and Masculinity in 1950's British Cinema; Chapter 4: The New Italian Glamour: Italian Film Stars in British Cinema from the Early 1950's to the Mid-1960's; Chapter 5: Italianness, British Cinema, and Thatcherism; Conclusion; Filmography; Works Cited; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Recent years have seen an increased interest in issues of national identity and representation, and cinema is a major medium where strands and layers of representational systems come together in cross-cultural dialogues. Beauty and the Beast provides an account of the specific development of depictions of Italy and the Italians in British cinema. Girelli draws upon cultural and social history to assess the ongoing function of "Italianness" in British film, and its crucial role in defining and challenging British national identity. Drawing on British literary and filmic tradition to analyse the