Paola Bonifazio

The Photoromance (eBook, ePUB)

A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating feminist reading of an often scorned medium: the storytelling, cross-platform success, and female fandom of the photoromance. Born in Italy and successfully exported to the rest of the world, photoromances had a readership of millions in the postwar years. By the early 1960s, more than ten million Italians read a photoromance each week. Despite its popularity, the photoromance--a form of graphic storytelling that uses photographs instead of drawings--was widely scorned as a medium, and its largely female audience derided as naive, pathetic, and uneducated. In this provocative book, Paola Bonifazio offers another perspective, making a case for the relevance of the photoromance for both feminism and media culture. She argues that the photoromance pioneered storytelling across platforms, elevated characters and artists into brands, and nurtured a devoted fan base. Moreover, Bonifazio shows that female readers--condescended to by intellectuals, journalists, and politicians of both the left and the right--powered the Italian photoromance industry's success.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262359405
• Artikelnr.: 58671656

Autorenporträt

Paola Bonifazio is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Schooling in Modernity: The Politics of Sponsored Films in Postwar Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Hall of Shame
Chapter One: Chasing the Audience
Chapter Two: More Than Romances
Chapter Three: Pirates of the Film Industry
Chapter Four: Cold War Fotoromanzi
Chapter Five: Birth Control in Comics
Chapter Six: The Revenge of the Fans
Epilogue: Like an Earthquake
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