New book: Italian Cinema Audiences: Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy

Danielle Hipkins, Catherine O'Rawe, Daniela Treveri Gennari, SarahCulhane and Silvia Dibeltulo are pleased to announce our new jointly-authored monograph, /Italian Cinema Audiences: Histories and memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy /(Bloomsbury 2020).//The volume stems from the AHRC-funded project (2013-2016) /ItalianCinema Audiences 1945-60/, and draws upon the rich data collected (160video interviews and 1000+ written questionnaires; archival material related to cinema distribution, exhibition and programming, box-office figures, and critical discussions of cinema from film journals and popular magazines of the period) in order to investigate cinema's role in everyday Italian life.