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“a sisto”

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  • Film Sound in Italy

    Listening to the Screen

    by A. Sisto ...
    A critical engagement with cinema in Italy, this book examines the national archive of film based on sound and listening using a holistic audio-visual approach. Sisto shifts the sensory paradigm of film history and analysis from the optical to the sonic, demonstrating how this translates into a shift of canonical narratives and interpretations. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Sport Italia

    The Italian Love Affair with Sport

    by Dr Simon Martin ...
    The Italian love affair with sport is passionate, voracious, all-consuming. It provides a backdrop and a narrative to almost every aspect of daily life in Italy and the distinctively pink-coloured newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport is devoured by almost half a million readers every day. Narrating the history of modern Italy through its national passion for sport, Sport Italia provides a completely ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Twentieth Century Italy

    A Social History

    by Jonathan Dunnage ...
    Series series Social History of Europe
    Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It assesses their living standards, their health and education, their working conditions and their leisure activities. The final part of the book examines ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • An Artist as Soldier

    Seeking Refuge in Love and Art

    by Barbara Schmitter Heisler ...
    Series Book 114 - American University Studies
    At the center of this book are the World War II letters (Feldpostbriefe) of a German artist and art teacher to his wife. While Bernhard Epple’s letters to his wife, Gudrun, address many of the topics usually found in war letters (food, lodging conditions, the weather, problems with the mail service, requests for favors from home), they are unusual in two respects. Each letter is lovingly decorated ... Read more

    $102.49 USD

  • Italy in the International System from Détente to the End of the Cold War

    The Underrated Ally

    Edited by Benedetto Zaccaria, Antonio Varsori ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edited collection offers a new approach to the study of Italy’s foreign policy from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War, highlighting its complex and sometimes ambiguous goals, due to the intricacies of its internal system and delicate position in the fault line of the East-West and North-South divides. According to received opinion, during the Cold War era Italy was more an object rather ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Italian Jews from Emancipation to the Racial Laws

    by C. Bettin ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The Emancipation signalled the beginning of Jewish integration in Italy, a process that continued until 1938 when the Racial Laws were put into effect. In this book, Bettin examines the debate between integration and assimilation in the early twentieth century and Jewish culture to trace the 'rebirth of Judaism' that characterized the period. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy

    by Judith C. Brown, Robert C. Davis ...
    Series series Women And Men In History
    This major new collection of essays by leading scholars of Renaissance Italy transforms many of our existing notions about Renaissance politics, economy, social life, religion, medicine, and art. All the essays are founded on original archival research and examine questions within a wide chronological and geographical framework - in fact the pan-Italian scope of the volume is one of the volume's ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Central Banking: Theory and History

    by Stefano Ugolini ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is the first complete survey of the evolution of monetary institutions and practices in Western countries from the Middle Ages to today. It radically rethinks previous attempts at a history of monetary institutions by avoiding institutional approach and shifting the focus away from the Anglo-American experience. Previous histories have been hamstrung by the linear, teleological ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • 'Ndrangheta

    The Glocal Dimensions of the Most Powerful Italian Mafia

    by Anita Lavorgna, Anna Sergi ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents an historical and sociological account of the Italian mafia-type organisation known as the ‘ndrangheta. It draws together diverse perspectives on the various ‘ndrangheta clans and their behavioural models, focusing specifically on their organisational skills, their bonds with Calabrian society and Calabrian communities around the world, their mobility, and their characterisation ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Thinking Italian Animals

    Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film

    Edited by D. Amberson, E. Past ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD