Popular Italian Cinema

List of Figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements The Fair and the Museum: Framing the Popular; S.Rigoletto & L.Bayman Italian Cinema, Popular?; C.Wagstaff The Prettiness of Italian Cinema; R.Galt The Pervasiveness of Song in Italian Cinema; R.Dyer Melodrama as Seriousness; L.Bayman Moving Masculinity: Incest Narratives in Italian Sex Comedies; T.Nakahar Laughter and the Popular in Lina Wertmüller's The Seduction of Mimì; S.Rigoletto Strategies of Tension: Towards a Re-Interpretation of Enzo G. Castellari's The Big Racket and The Italian Crime Film; A.Marlow-Mann 'Il delirio del lungo metraggio': Cinema as Mass Phenomenon in Early Twentieth Tentury Italian Cinema; I.Lottini Dressing the Part: 'Made in Italy' Goes to the Movies with Lucia Bosé in Chronicle of a Love Affair; R.Buckley Hercules versus Hercules: Variation and Continuation in Two Generations of Heroic Masculinity; D.O'Brien On the Complexity of Cinepanettone; A.O'Leary Cinema and Popular Preaching: the Italian Missionary Film and Fiamme; F.Piredda The Italian Mondo Documentary Film; M.Goodall Index