Stardom, Italian Style: Screen Performance and Personality in Italian Cinema (New Directions in National Cinemas)

by Marcia Landy (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $40.01

  Examines the history of Italian celebrity culture and ponders the changing qualities of stardom. This book examines the phenomenon of the diva in the European cinema, the invention of new stars in the sound cinema, and the postwar impact on stardom through the introduction of changing forms of narration in popular genres.