Selected papers presented at the Italy on Screen Conference, held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, in 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Lucy Bolton -- Italian Imaginaries. Italy and lamerica: the road of remembrance / Cristiana Furlan -- The Italian comedy of the economic miracle: L'italiano medio and strategies of gender exclusion / Sergio Rigoletto -- Family life, Moretti style / Eleanor Andrews -- The Catholic Church. The Catholic Church in Il Bidone: salvation or wwindle? / Tim Cawkell -- Pasolini's deconstruction and reformulation of Italian Catholic identity in La ricotta / Erminia Passannanti -- Forbidden pleasures: voyeurism, showgirls and Catholicism in postwar cinema in Italy / Daniela Treveri Gennari -- Italy and Britain. Italian (re)settings in British Cinema: Mike Barker's A good woman / Raffaella Antinucci -- The Duke's Versace sunglasses : Catholic piety and Italian otherness in Alex Cox's Revengers tragedy / Maria Serena Marchesi -- Contemporary perspectives. Seeking a "chance for a reawakening" : the 1970s in new Italian cinema / Emanuele D'onofrio -- Cities and landscapes: physical spaces and Topoi of identity in films by Giuseppe Tornatore and Carlo Mazzacurati / Maria Bonaria Urban -- Body vs technology? myths and identity in Gabriele Salvatores's Nirvana / Paolo Russo -- Epilogue / Pauline Small.

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