New Italian-language E-Book Titles

Are you wanting to practise your Italian? Learn more about Italian history in its own language? Koerner Library has just acquired a number of recent releases in the Italian language in Humanities and Social Sciences. Check out some highlights below.

Pasolini by Antonio Tricomi
Pasolini by Antonio Tricomi (Italian) | e-book

A profile of Pasolini’s varied works as well as a review of the main critical interpretations of these works.

Il teatro gay in Italia. Testi e documenti - Antonio Pizzo - Libro - Accademia University Press - Mimesis journal books | IBS
Il teatro gay in Italia: testi e documenti edited by Antonio Pizzo (Italian) | e-book

Collects historical and contemporary texts, as well as critical analyses around queer theater in Italy to give a sense of the cultural context in which this movement was born.

Profondo Sud. Storia, documentario e Mezzogiorno - Mariangela Palmieri - Libro - Liguori - Cinema e storia | IBS
Profondo Sud: storia, documentario e Mezzogiorno by Mariangela Palmieri (Italian) | e-book

Considers a large number of documentaries about the South of Italy, and the role these films have played in establishing an identity for this area.

Cityscapes of hellenistic Sicily : proceedings of a conference of the Excellence Cluster Topoi : the formation and Transformation of Space and knowledge in ancient civilizations held at Berl: 9788854910027: Books - Amazon.ca
Cityscapes of Hellenistic Sicily: proceedings of a Conference of the Excellence Cluster Topoi: the Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations (English, Italian, German) | e-book

Includes contributions in English and German as well as Italian.

 

Rinascimento in mostra
Rinascimento in mostra: la civiltà italiana tra storia e ideologia all’Esposizione universale di Roma by Igor Melani (Italian) | e-book

Exploresthe “Exhibition of Italian Civilization” conceived as part of the planned 1942 Universal Exposition in Rome.

La Storia sul grande schermo. Risorgimento e Resistenza nel cinema italiano tra Ricostruzione e miracolo economico (1945-1965) - Pietro Cavallo - Libro - Liguori - Storia contemporanea | IBS
Storia sul grande schermo: Risorigmento e Resistenza nel cinema italiano tra Ricostruzione e miracolo economico (1945-1965) by Pietro Cavallo (Italian) | e-book

Examines cinema between the Second World War and 1960s in Italy, and the role it plays in emotionally reconstructing the past.

 

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