Author Archive for: ‘Regina Longo’

Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape and the Picturesque

Giorgio Bertellini, Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape and the Picturesque. Indiana University Press, 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22128-5 US$24.95 (pb) 464pp (Review copy supplied by Indiana University Press) “Southernism: The answer to the Southern Question?” Giorgio Bertellini’s Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape and the Picturesque fills a much needed void in our understanding of the role that Italians and Italian …

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Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds, Tony Shaw and Denise J. Youngblood

Tony Shaw and Denise J. Youngblood, Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds University Press of Kansas, 2010 ISBN 978-0-7006-1743-2 US$34.95 (hb) 312pp (Review copy supplied by University Press of Kansas)     Who are the “All Time Winners in an All Time Losers Game”? [1] Tony Shaw and Denise J. Youngblood’s thoroughly researched cultural …

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