Stardom, Italian Style: Screen Performance and Personality in Italian Cinema Tom McCarthy Author: Chunichi

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Stardom, Italian Style: Screen Performance and Personality in Italian Cinema Tom McCarthy Author: ChunichiMarcia Landy examines the history of Italian celebrity culture and ponders the changing qualities of stardom in the 20th and 21st centuries. She considers the historical conditions for the rise of stardom in the context of various media, from the silent era to contemporary media, tracking how stardom shapes national and international identities. The phenomenon of the diva in the early European cinema, the invention of new stars in the sound cinema,