Screening Religions in Italy

This is the first book-length study to address the question of religion in contemporary Italian cinema and television. It questions why religion persists on Italian screens and how this reflects and constructs Italy’s emerging post-secularity.

Clodagh J. Brook is associate professor and Head of Italian at Trinity College, Dublin.

Marcia Landy, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh:

"In a very readable, long overdue, and engrossing study, Clodagh J. Brook sets herself a bold and arduous task, involving a massive and intellectual confrontation with ‘Italy’s religion in the new millennium,’ not as the final word on Roman Catholicism, but as a symptomatic flashpoint to explore the ‘vast spectacle and power of the international Catholic faith’ tied to uncertain questions of national identity and belief."