Book presentation "Heim-Suchungen"

Daniel Illger's book "Heim-Suchungen. Stadt und Geschichtlichkeit im italienischen Nachkriegskino" (Verlag Vorwerk 8) deals with the mise-en-scène of the city and the public in Italian postwar cinema and raises the question of how Western European cinema at the time sought to newly found itself as a democratic cinema. The author develops a genealogy from the big-city symphonies of the 1920s via the classical American gangster movies of the 1930s and 40s to Italian postwar cinema.