“Looking beyond the finished product of the actor’s performance, this essential collection illuminates the work of screen acting. Presenting a diverse range of case studies, chapters provide valuable insights into the formation of career pathways, the roles played by assorted intermediaries in managing actor, and the uses of various media outlets to generate promotional exposure.”

— Paul McDonald, King’s College, UK

“This book offers fascinating explorations of actors’ trajectories, including the ways they manage their age and their aging and how they broker off-screen activities, making this an especially useful and rich resource in Italian screen studies.”

— Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University, USA

“This volume magnificently expands the geographical and media reach of star studies, demonstrating the ways in which contemporary, non-Hollywood stardom is and is not appropriately understood through the established paradigms. Furthermore, star studies have long been bedevilled by an emphasis on the star image at the expense of the work that goes into producing such images. Here the volume is triumphant, brilliantly covering all bases.”

— Richard Dyer, King’s College, UK

This open access book brings together performance studies, celebrity studies, and media production studies, and it offers a comprehensive understanding of the multi-layered condition of film and television performers within the contemporary Italian screen media landscape. By focusing on a selection of stars who reached success from 2000 onwards, the collection highlights how the renewal of the Italian media industry in the late 1990s impacted different aspects of Italian screen performers’ professional lives, from training to promotion and validation strategies.

Luca Barra is Professor of Television and Media Studies at the Department of the Arts, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Cristina Formenti is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Mariapaola Pierini is Professor of Film Studies at the Department of Humanities, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy

Francesco Pitassio is Professor of Film Studies at the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Università degli Studi di Udine, Udine, Italy

“Looking beyond the finished product of the actor’s performance, this essential collection illuminates the work of screen acting. Presenting a diverse range of case studies, chapters provide valuable insights into the formation of career pathways, the roles played by assorted intermediaries in managing actor careers, and the uses of various media outlets to generate promotional exposure.” (Paul McDonald, King’s College, UK)

 

“This book offers fascinating essays focusing on acting professionals whose careers are explored through flexible analytical frames. We learn of actors whose training was academic or gained by way of on-set apprenticeship, and of the contributions of other professionals. Explorations of the ways actors manage their age and their aging, as well as how they broker off-screen activities are especially useful in making this volume a rich and unique resource in Italian screen studies.” (Ellen Nerenberg, Wesleyan University, United States)

 

“This superb collection of essays by a group of scholars at the top of their game goes far beyond its valuable account of contemporary Italian stardom to make two fundamental contributions to the general field of star studies. This last has become a cornerstone of film and media studies, just as stardom is a fundamental aspect of film and media themselves. However, as star studies has developed, two lacunae have become evident, both addressed by Italian Contemporary Screen Performers: Training, Production, Prestige. The volume is very well put together, rigorously edited, very well written. It is an important contribution to film, television, media and celebrity studies, that is to say to the study of one of the most powerful modes of cultural production in twenty-first century society.” (Richard Dyer, Kings College, London, UK)

Divided into three sections: training and early career path; career management; promotion and validation strategies Assesses the impact of the renewal of Italian media industry from the late 1990s Focuses on a selection of Italian film and television stars who reached success from 2000 onwards This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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