Italian TV Drama and Beyond

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By Milly Buonanno

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Italian TV Drama and Beyond explores the rise of television drama in Italy since the mid-1950s, highlighting its pivotal role in shaping contemporary Italian storytelling and identity. Drawing from Italy's rich cultural and historical heritage alongside influential foreign imports, the book offers deep insight into the narratives that reflect Italian society and showcases a diverse range of programming beyond the Anglo-American context.
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Italian TV Drama and Beyond is ideal for scholars, students, and enthusiasts of television studies, media, and cultural history, particularly those interested in Italian society and European media landscapes.

Television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society. Informed by the nation's historical and cultural heritage, the narratives offer insight into Italian society and competing versions of Italian identity, highlighting the wide array of television programming available outside of Britain and the US.

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Since its inception in the mid-1950s, the television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society, with a steadily increasing supply of locally produced domestic dramas offering up competing versions of Italian identity.

Informed by the nation’s rich historical and cultural heritage—as well as a string of notable foreign imports—the narratives discussed in Italian TV Drama and Beyond offer much insight into Italian society and highlight the wide array of television programming available outside of Britain and the United States.

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Milly Buonanno ... is one of the finest scholar-storytellers we have. Both breathtaking and painstaking in its excavation of cultural detail, this is a book only possible after a lifetime of careful viewing and reflection.' – Media International Australia She [Buonanno] brings considerable scholarship, sophistication and sympathy to a highly compelling and warmly recommended study of national and non-national fiction in Italy since the 1950s. – Albert Moran, Griffith University, Brisbane In this scintillating and original study of Italian television drama, Milly Buonanno develops a brilliant and compelling account of a relatively unknown body of televisual texts that will be required reading for scholars and students of television and the mass media everywhere. – Stephen Gundle, University of Warwick In this wonderful book, Milly Buonanno has achieved the difficult mandate that a study of a medium must also be a study of a whole way of life. Italian TV Drama and Beyond shows that television is just as tied up in Italy's long legacy of style and creativity as its cuisine, fashion, and landscape. – John Durham Peters

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781841504599

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 May 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 445g

Pages: 264

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Arts & Culture Milly Buonanno Non-Fiction

About the Author

Milly Buonanno is Professor of Television studies at the University of Rome La Sapienza and former Dean of the Faculty of Media and Journalism at the University of Firenze. In addition she is Director of the Advanced Laboratory for Creation and Production of Television Drama at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography, and Director of the Observatory for Italian Television Drama. She has written and edited many books, some of them translated into English and Spanish, and has published essays and articles in numerous foreign journals. She is a member of the editorial board of several international academic journals in Europe and in North and South America.