1st Edition

Branded Entertainment and Cinema The Marketisation of Italian Film

By Gloria Dagnino Copyright 2020
120 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

The history of Italian cinema is mostly regarded as a history of Italian auteurs. This book takes a different standpoint, looking at Italian cinema from the perspective of an unusual, but influential actor: advertisers. From the iconic Vespa scooter and the many other Made in Italy products placed in domestic and international features, to Carosello ’s early format of branded... Read more

    Introduction

    Chapter 1: Golden, plastic and lead: Italy between the 1950s and the 1970s

    Chapter 2: The normalisation of anomaly: Italy between the 1980s and the 2000s

    Chapter 3 The imperfect marketisation: Italian advertising and cinema in the 2000s

    Conclusions: to be continued

    Biography

    Gloria Dagnino, PhD, works at the Institute of Media and Journalism of the Università della Svizzera Italian (USI), where she teaches film economics within the Master program in Film Studies of the Swiss Cinema Network. She is also the Equal Opportunities officer at USI. Her research interests include political economy of media, branded content, media diversity and Italian cinema.