LEADER 04096nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910820594803321 005 20240516162336.0 010 $a1-84150-689-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000185178 035 $a(EBL)914258 035 $a(OCoLC)794489818 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000656749 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12291696 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000656749 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10635949 035 $a(PQKB)10579596 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC914258 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL914258 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10551871 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL884599 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000185178 100 $a20120423d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aItalian TV drama and beyond $estories from the soil, stories from the sea /$fby Milly Buonanno ; translated by Jennifer Radice 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBristol ;$aChicago $cIntellect$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84150-459-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFrontCover; 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 Dallas 327 $a3. 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 Drama 327 $aThe 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 everywhere 327 $a7. 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; BackCover 330 $aSince its inception in the mid-1950s, the television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society, 606 $aTelevision$zItaly 606 $aTelevision plays 615 0$aTelevision 615 0$aTelevision plays. 676 $a791 676 $a791.45750945 700 $aBuonanno$b Milly$0142048 701 $aRadice$b Jennifer$01705718 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820594803321 996 $aItalian TV drama and beyond$94092661 997 $aUNINA