Contents: Scented cinema and independent filmmaking in the 1970s – Found footage and history – Armenia and the genocide – Trauma and memory – First World War: prisoners, war in the Dolomite Mountains, the aftermath – Fascism and colonialism – Exhibitions, museums, installations, audiences – Marinetti’s futurism – Body, embodiment, and the phenomenological turn – Death and after-life of cinema.
Robert Lumley is Professor of Italian Cultural History at University College London. He studied modern history at the University of Oxford and was a researcher at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham. His publications include States of Emergency: Cultures of Revolt in Italy from 1968 to 1978 (1990) and Arte Povera (2004), as well as the edited volumes The Museum Time-Machine (1987) and Italian Cityscapes: Culture and Urban Change in Contemporary Italy (with John Foot, 2004).
«This engaging and important book and its subject will hopefully find the broadest possible audience, as it is a volume that should be read by scholars in many fields.» (Emiliano Perra, H-Net Reviews, January 2015)
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