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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793820103321

Autore

Brook Clodagh J.

Titolo

Screening Religions in Italy : Contemporary Italian Cinema and Television in the Post-secular Public Sphere / / Clodagh J. Brook

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]

©2019

ISBN

1-4875-1801-3

1-4875-1800-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 pages)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

791.430945

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Italy

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: 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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--