04096nam 2200613 a 450 991082059480332120240516162336.01-84150-689-3(CKB)2670000000185178(EBL)914258(OCoLC)794489818(SSID)ssj0000656749(PQKBManifestationID)12291696(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000656749(PQKBWorkID)10635949(PQKB)10579596(MiAaPQ)EBC914258(Au-PeEL)EBL914258(CaPaEBR)ebr10551871(CaONFJC)MIL884599(EXLCZ)99267000000018517820120423d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrItalian TV drama and beyond stories from the soil, stories from the sea /by Milly Buonanno ; translated by Jennifer Radice1st ed.Bristol ;Chicago Intellect20121 online resource (274 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84150-459-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.FrontCover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; Invisible Italian TV drama; The structure of the book; 1. Building the Nation: The Origins of Italian TV Drama 1.; The words to say it; The domestic stage; Literary adaptation; Electronic library; The implication approach; The foreign sources of a national genre; Literature and history; 2. The Cinematic Turn and the Americanization of the Television Landscape; Keeping the cinema at bay; The cinematic turn; The rise of the miniseries; The flood of American imports; The Italian response to Dallas3. The Political Career of a Popular Fiction: La Piovra (The Octopus: The Power of the Mafia)A phenomenon of popularity; Bond and beyond; An intertextual octopus; The origins of La Piovra's success; Mafia plots; Social melodrama; The fascination of the loser; Italian-style serial; Television event; The Mafia and politics; 4. A Place in the Sun: The First Italian Soap Opera; Escape from fiction; Turning point; The close encounter of local and global; An Italian sense of place; A seminal story; 5. Mimetic Heroes and Ironic Leaders: The Genesis and Evolution of Italian Police DramaThe season of the detective storyStories from the sea; Stories from the soil; The funny detective; The hero is 'one of us'; A 'heritage' trilogy; Squads; The girls with a gun; Women on top; The merging of sailor's and peasant's storytelling; 6. In the Footsteps of La Piovra: Twenty years of Mafia stories in Italian TV drama; Mob stories are always hot: a tour d'horizon; A 20-year cycle; The centrality of Cosa Nostra; Facts burst into fiction; Heroes and villains; A male-dominated genre and its exceptions; The Mafia is everywhere7. Life Stories: A Heroic Enclave and the Rise of the Religious BiopicThe rebirth of the biopic; Anti-heroic society; The biography genre and the shifting definition of the fame; A heroic enclave; The Bible Project; A plural catholicism; 8. The Re-enactment of the Past and the Politics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Drama; The temporal turn; Past and present; Television as historian; Divided, denied, shared memory; 'We are not like them'; Conclusion; The convocative power of the mainstream drama; Visibility for what?; References; Index; BackCoverSince its inception in the mid-1950s, the television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society,TelevisionItalyTelevision playsTelevisionTelevision plays.791791.45750945Buonanno Milly142048Radice Jennifer1705718MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820594803321Italian TV drama and beyond4092661UNINA