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  • Bicycle Thieves

    by Robert S.C. Gordon ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette, 1948) is unarguably one of the most important films in the history of cinema. It is also one of the most beguiling, moving, and seemingly simple works of narrative ever made. The film tells the story of one man and his son as they search fruitlessly through the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle; the bicycle which had offered the ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

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  • Queering the South

    Case Studies with Emma Dante

    by Alice Parrinello, Pierpaolo Antonello, Robert S.C. Gordon, Charlotte Ross ...
    Series Book 46 - Italian Modernities
    This book offers a queer reading of the oeuvre of Sicilian director Emma Dante, winner of the 2026 Theatre Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. It contextualises Dante’s work within the longstanding anti-meridionalist North–South binary that has dogged Italy history and culture, and argues that Dante exemplifies a Southern and queer epistemology that unsettles this divide and revalorises the South. ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • The Distance to China

    Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriotism, Commitment and Disillusion (1898–1985)

    by Robert S.C. Gordon, Pierpaolo Antonello, Linetto Basilone ...
    Series Book 42 - Italian Modernities
    «As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the late ... Read more

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    Edited by Graziella Parati ...
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  • The Artist's Mentor

    Inspiration from the World's Most Creative Minds

    by Ian Jackman ...
    What inspires a person to create? How does an artist see the world? What happens during a "eureka moment?" How does an artist find self-discipline? The Artist's Mentor is for those of us who want to create art but do not know how to begin. Drawing on interviews and autobiographical writings of more than 100 famous painters, photographers, sculptors, and film and video artists, Jackman gets to the ... Read more

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  • A History of Italian Cinema

    by Dr Peter Bondanella, Professor Federico Pacchioni ...
    A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni reorganize the current History in order to keep the book fresh and responsive not only to the actual ... Read more

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  • Mussolini's Intellectuals

    Fascist Social and Political Thought

    by A. James Gregor ...
    Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the English-speaking world--provides an alternative account. A. James Gregor argues that Italian ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • ArtQuake

    The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art

    by Susie Hodge ...
    Series series Culture Quake
    Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up.ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.The books begin with the rebels who struck out against Victorian conformism, daring painters and ... Read more

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  • Antonio Gramsci

    by Antonio A. Santucci, Lelio La Porta, Eric Hobsbawm, Joseph Buttigieg, Salvatore Engel-DiMauro, Graziella DiMauro ...
    “What the future fortunes of [Gramsci’s] writings will be, we cannot know. However, his permanence is already sufficiently sure, and justifies the historical study of his international reception. The present collection of studies is an indispensable foundation for this.” —Eric Hobsbawm, from the prefaceAntonio Gramsci is a giant of Marxian thought and one of the world’s greatest cultural critics. ... Read more

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  • Mussolini's Grandchildren

    Fascism in Contemporary Italy

    by David Broder ...
    'Fascinating and trenchant, this account of contemporary Italian neo-fascism is both original and shocking' - John Foot, historianThe dominant force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia — a party with a direct genealogy from Mussolini's regime. Surging to prominence in recent years, it has waged a fierce culture war around national identity, polarised political debate around ... Read more

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  • Bright Stars

    Great Artists Who Died Too Young

    by Kate Bryan ...
    'Bryan’s writing pops and zings like a Basquiat painting' – NOEL FIELDINGIn Bright Stars, Kate Bryan examines the lives and legacies of 30 great artists who died too young, celebrating their inspirational stories and extraordinary talent.Some of the world’s greatest and most-loved artists died under the age of forty. But how did they turn relatively short careers into such long legacies? What ... Read more

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  • Pride in Modesty

    Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

    by Michelangelo Sabatino ...
    Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, ... Read more

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