Italian Contemporary Screen Performers

Training, Production, Prestige

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by Luca Barra, Cristina Formenti, Mariapaola Pierini and Francesco Pitassio

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Italy

Keywords

Italy, actors

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 322 pages
6 x 8 ¼ inches (15 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-3-031-67309-2

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Book Presentation:
Bringing together performance studies, celebrity studies, and media production studies, this open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multi-layered condition of film and television performers within the contemporary Italian screen media landscape. By focusing on a selection of stars who reached success from 2000 onwards, the collection highlights how the renewal of the Italian media industry in the late 1990s impacted different aspects of Italian screen performers’ professional lives, from training to promotion and validation strategies.

About the authors:
Luca Barra is Professor of Television and Digital Media Studies at the Università di Bologna, Italy.Cristina Formenti is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.Mariapaola Pierini is Professor of Film Studies at the Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy.Francesco Pitassio is Professor of Film Studies at the Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy.

Press Reviews:
"Looking beyond the finished product of the actor’s performance, this essential collection illuminates the work of screen acting. Presenting a diverse range of case studies, chapters provide valuable insights into the formation of career pathways, the roles played by assorted intermediaries in managing actor careers, and the uses of various media outlets to generate promotional exposure." (Paul McDonald, King’s College, UK)

"This book offers fascinating essays focusing on acting professionals whose careers are explored through flexible analytical frames. We learn of actors whose training was academic or gained by way of on-set apprenticeship, and of the contributions of other professionals. Explorations of the ways actors manage their age and their aging, as well as how they broker off-screen activities are especially useful in making this volume a rich and unique resource in Italian screen studies." (Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University, United States)

"This superb collection of essays by a group of scholars at the top of their game goes far beyond its valuable account of contemporary Italian stardom to make two fundamental contributions to the general field of star studies. This last has become a cornerstone of film and media studies, just as stardom is a fundamental aspect of film and media themselves. However, as star studies has developed, two lacunae have become evident, both addressed by Italian Contemporary Screen Performers: Training, Production, Prestige. The volume is very well put together, rigorously edited, very well written. It is an important contribution to film, television, media and celebrity studies, that is to say to the study of one of the most powerful modes of cultural production in twenty-first century society." (Richard Dyer, Kings College, London, UK)

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan