The Photoromance
A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture
$60.60
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2020
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262539289 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262539284 |
| Author: | Paola Bonifazio |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 598g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm |
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About The Author
Paola Bonifazio
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.
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