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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
"This volume explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a return to reality by examining the country's rich cultural production in literature and cinema. The focus is particularly on works from the period spanning the...
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Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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"This volume explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a return to reality by examining the country's rich cultural production in literature and cinema. The focus is particularly on works from the period spanning the Nineties to the present day which offer alternatives to notions of reality as manufactured by the collusion between the neo-liberal state and the media. The book also discusses Italy's relationship with its own cultural past by investigating how Italian authors deal with the return of the specter of Neorealism as it haunts the modern artistic imagination in this new epoch of crisis. Furthermore, the volume engages in dialogue with previous works of criticism on contemporary Italian realism, while going beyond them in devoting equal attention to cinema and literature. The resulting interactions will aid the reader in understanding how the critical arts respond to the triumph of hyperrealism in the current era of the virtual spectacle as they seek new ways to promote cognitive transformations and foster ethical interventions."--Provided by publisher The uses of affective realism in asbestos narratives: Prunetti's Amianto and Valenti's La fabbrica del panico /Monica Jansen --Toxic tales: on representing environmental crisis in Puglia /Monica Seger --New realism or return to ethics? paths of Italian narrative from the 1990s to today /Raffaello Palumbo Mosca --Resisting inexperience in the age of media hyperreality: the "ends of mourning" in Antonio Scurati's Il sopravvissuto /Loredana Di Martino --Collective transmedia storytelling from below: Timira and the new Italian epic /Clarissa Clò --"The task of truly probing reality": an interview with Antonio Franchini /Loredana Di Martino, Pasquale Verdicchio and Raffaello Palumbo Mosca --Revelatory crises of the real: Before the revolution and after Reality /Pasquale Verdicchio --Emanuele Crialese's allegorical realism in Respiro /Fulvio Orsitto --The quest for identity and the real in Crialese's Terraferma, Dionisio's Un consiglio a Dio, and Martinelli's Rumore di acque /Gloria Pastorino --A journey from death to life: spectacular realism and the "unamendability" of reality in Paolo Sorrentino's The great beauty /Monica Facchini --Italian documentary forms and cinematographic archives /Marco Bertozzi --"History has come back with a vengeance": an interview with Giovanna Taviani /Loredana Di Martino and Pasquale Verdicchio.
