| ISBN13: | 9783031673092 |
| ISBN10: | 3031673093 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 225 pages |
| Size: | 210x148 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | Approx. 320 p. 30 illus. in color. Illustrations, color |
| 700 |
Italian Contemporary Screen Performers
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Luca Barra is Professor of Television and Digital Media Studies at the Universit? di Bologna, Italy.
Cristina Formenti is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the Universit? degli Studi di Udine, Italy.
Mariapaola Pierini is Professor of Film Studies at the Universit? degli Studi di Torino, Italy.
Francesco Pitassio is Professor of Film Studies at the Universit? degli Studi di Udine, Italy.
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.
1. Introduction. Working Stars.- 2. Introduction to Section I.- 3. Antonio Albanese. Drama, Comedy, and Everything in Between.- 4. Luca Argentero. The Charm of Understatement.- 5. Marco Giallini. ?I Had a Hundred Jobs!? What His Story Tells Us About Career Development in the Cultural Industries.- 6. Luca Marinelli. ?You Have to Learn to Trust Your Own Face?.- 7. Benedetta Porcaroli. Don?t Call Me Baby.- 8. Alba Rohrwacher. An Unconventional Actress with an Academic Training.- 9. Toni Servillo. An Actor ?Fallen? into Cinema.- 10. Mirella Bordoni. Teaching Acting with the ?Costa Method?.- 11. Tatiana Lepore. From Creative Mediation to Functionality. The Role of the Acting Coach in Italy.- 12. Introduction to Section II.- 13. Giuseppe Battiston. Enough with the Latin Lover.- 14. Silvia Calderoni. A Techno-Heart Athlete.- 15. Coco Rebecca Edogamhe. A Very Ordinary Girl.- 16. Pierfrancesco Favino. Italianness, Masculinity, and Performance of a Popular Antidivo.- 17. Sabrina Ferilli. A Star Reborn. Negotiating Sexuality, Femininity, and Ageing through Authenticity.- 18. Valeria Golino. Transnational and Global Italianness.- 19. Caterina Murino. Global Ambitions, Italian Roots.- 20. Jasmine Trinca. The Smiling Girl Goes