The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama

This monograph argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society.

Author: Louis Bayman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 03/05/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781474402866

About the Author

Louis Bayman is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton. He holds a PhD from King's College, London and has published various articles on popular genres especially in relation to Italian cinema, serial killer cinema, film aesthetics and retro and nostalgia. He is author of the monograph The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama (2014) and co-editor of the collection Popular Italian Cinema.