Books by Angelo Restivo

Angelo Restivo uses the innovative show Breaking Bad as a point of departure for theorizing a new aesthetics of television in which the concept of the cinematic points to the ways in which television can change the ways viewers relate to and interact with the world.

The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. This title argues for an understanding of that cinema as a negotiation between a national aesthetic tradition of realism and a nascent post-modern image culture. It is suitable for scholars and students in different areas of film studies.