Dr Alex Marlow-Mann is a Lecturer in European Film and Acting Director of B-Film: Birmingham Centre for Film Studies at The University of Birmingham.

• Introduction; 1. The Italian Film Industry and Neapolitan Cinema; 2. Characteristics and Functions of the Neapolitan Formula; 3. 'Estranei alla massa': The New Neapolitan Cinema and the Crisis in Napoletanità; 4. Gold and Dust: Hybridity, Postmodernism and the Legacy of Neapolitan Narrative; 5. Symbolic Politics: The Neapolitan Renaissance and the Politics of the New Neapolitan Cinema; Conclusion; Appendices.

The best studies of Italian culture are often written by foreigners so perhaps it’s not by chance that The New Neapolitan Cinema, an excellent book by the young English researcher Alex Marlow-Mann, shows up the limitations within which earlier studies of Neapolitan cinema have been carried out... The author works with typically Anglo-Saxon rigour, ferreting through film and book archives; cataloguing films, books and much more besides; compiling and comparing data, percentages, statistics and locations. But he also writes as a scrupulously open-minded historian and critic, offering striking insights and bursts of creativity and avoiding both over- and under-valuation in order to place the phenomenon of the New Neapolitan Cinema back in its correct proportions. (translated from Italian)

Dr Alex Marlow-Mann is a Lecturer in European Film and Acting Director of B-Film: Birmingham Centre for Film Studies at The University of Birmingham.

• Introduction; 1. The Italian Film Industry and Neapolitan Cinema; 2. Characteristics and Functions of the Neapolitan Formula; 3. 'Estranei alla massa': The New Neapolitan Cinema and the Crisis in Napoletanità; 4. Gold and Dust: Hybridity, Postmodernism and the Legacy of Neapolitan Narrative; 5. Symbolic Politics: The Neapolitan Renaissance and the Politics of the New Neapolitan Cinema; Conclusion; Appendices.

The best studies of Italian culture are often written by foreigners so perhaps it’s not by chance that The New Neapolitan Cinema, an excellent book by the young English researcher Alex Marlow-Mann, shows up the limitations within which earlier studies of Neapolitan cinema have been carried out... The author works with typically Anglo-Saxon rigour, ferreting through film and book archives; cataloguing films, books and much more besides; compiling and comparing data, percentages, statistics and locations. But he also writes as a scrupulously open-minded historian and critic, offering striking insights and bursts of creativity and avoiding both over- and under-valuation in order to place the phenomenon of the New Neapolitan Cinema back in its correct proportions. (translated from Italian)

Dr Alex Marlow-Mann is a Lecturer in European Film and Acting Director of B-Film: Birmingham Centre for Film Studies at The University of Birmingham.

• Introduction; 1. The Italian Film Industry and Neapolitan Cinema; 2. Characteristics and Functions of the Neapolitan Formula; 3. 'Estranei alla massa': The New Neapolitan Cinema and the Crisis in Napoletanità; 4. Gold and Dust: Hybridity, Postmodernism and the Legacy of Neapolitan Narrative; 5. Symbolic Politics: The Neapolitan Renaissance and the Politics of the New Neapolitan Cinema; Conclusion; Appendices.

The best studies of Italian culture are often written by foreigners so perhaps it’s not by chance that The New Neapolitan Cinema, an excellent book by the young English researcher Alex Marlow-Mann, shows up the limitations within which earlier studies of Neapolitan cinema have been carried out... The author works with typically Anglo-Saxon rigour, ferreting through film and book archives; cataloguing films, books and much more besides; compiling and comparing data, percentages, statistics and locations. But he also writes as a scrupulously open-minded historian and critic, offering striking insights and bursts of creativity and avoiding both over- and under-valuation in order to place the phenomenon of the New Neapolitan Cinema back in its correct proportions. (translated from Italian)