The Phenomenology of the cinepanettone
Since the early 1980s, irregularly at first and then annually, the Italian film industry has produced a series of comedies with titles like "Vacanze di Natale '90" and "Natale a Rio", released in time for Christmas and colloquially referred to as cinepanettone. The cinepanet...
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| Published in | Italian studies Vol. 66; no. 3; pp. 431 - 443 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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01.11.2011
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| Summary: | Since the early 1980s, irregularly at first and then annually, the Italian film industry has produced a series of comedies with titles like "Vacanze di Natale '90" and "Natale a Rio", released in time for Christmas and colloquially referred to as cinepanettone. The cinepanettone has become a byword for low quality and a metonym for the degradation of Italian film culture. The traditional suspicion of the popular in culturally authoritative circles in Italy itself meant that the cinepanettone remains almost unstudied. O'Leary investigates the production, construction in discourse and audiences of the cinepanettone. He lists the films he considers to define the cinepanettone canon. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0075-1634 1748-6181 |
| DOI: | 10.1179/007516311X13134938380526 |