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Author | : Pierre Sorlin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2006-08-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134817770 |
From such films as La Dolce Vita and Bicycle Thieves to Cinema Paradiso and Dear Diary, Italian cinema has provided striking images of Italy as a nation and a people. In the first comprehensive study of Italian cinema from 1886-1996, Pierre Sorlin explores the changing relationship of Italian cinema and Italian society and asks whether the national cinema really does represent Italian interests and culture.
Author | : Pierre Sorlin |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 041511697X |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Ruth Ben-Ghiat |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2015-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253015669 |
Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini’s government that took as their subjects or settings Italy’s African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic. The films engaged its most experienced and cosmopolitan directors (Augusto Genina, Mario Camerini) as well as new filmmakers (Roberto Rossellini) who would make their marks in the postwar years. Ben-Ghiat sees these films as part of the aesthetic development that would lead to neo-realism. Shot in Libya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, these movies reinforced Fascist racial and labor policies and were largely forgotten after the war. Ben-Ghiat restores them to Italian and international film history in this gripping account of empire, war, and the cinema of dictatorship.
Author | : Peter Bondanella |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 753 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1501307649 |
A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni reorganize the current History in order to keep the book fresh and responsive not only to the actual films being created in Italy in the twenty-first century but also to the rapidly changing priorities of Italian film studies and film scholars. The new edition brings the definitive history of the subject, from the birth of cinema to the present day, up to date with a revised filmography as well as more focused attention on the melodrama, the crime film, and the historical drama. The book is expanded to include a new generation of directors as well as to highlight themes such as gender issues, immigration, and media politics. Accessible, comprehensive, and heavily illustrated throughout, this is an essential purchase for any fan of Italian film.
Author | : Angelo Restivo |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2002-02-26 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780822327998 |
DIVA sophisticated theoretical treatment of post-war Italian Cinema./div
Author | : Giorgio Bertellini |
Publisher | : JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780861966707 |
Despite the wealth of studies of silent cinema in the English language, knowledge of the medium's first decades has remained attached to a canon in which Italian silent cinema appears deceptively familiar but largely absent. With 30 essays written by leading scholars in the field, 'Italian Silent Cinema' illuminates this understudied area of film history. Featuring over 100 illustrations, the reader brings into focus individual film companies, stars and genres and seeks to place the Italian production of dramas, comedies, serials, newsreels, and avant-garde works in dialogue with international film culture.
Author | : Gian Piero Brunetta |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780691119885 |
Discusses renowned masters including Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini, as well as directors lesser known outside Italy like Dino Risi and Ettore Scola. The author examines overlooked Italian genre films such as horror movies, comedies, and Westerns, and he also devotes attention to neglected periods like the Fascist era. He illuminates the epic scope of Italian filmmaking, showing it to be a powerful cultural force in Italy and leaving no doubt about its enduring influence abroad. Encompassing the social, political, and technical aspects of the craft, the author recreates the world of Italian cinema.
Author | : Millicent Joy Marcus |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2002-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801868474 |
In this work, Marcus interprets a body of work that managed to transcend the decline of Italian cinema's prominence within the industry during the last two decades of the 20th-century.
Author | : Stephen Gundle |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-11-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1789200024 |
Italian cinema gave rise to a number of the best-known films of the postwar years, from Rome Open City to Bicycle Thieves. Although some neorealist film-makers would have preferred to abolish stars altogether, the public adored them and producers needed their help in relaunching the national film industry. This book explores the many conflicts that arose in Italy between 1945 and 1953 over stars and stardom, offering intimate studies of the careers of both well-known and less familiar figures, shedding new light on the close relationship forged between cinema and society during a time of political transition and shifting national identities.
Author | : Laura E. Ruberto |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814333242 |
This volume addresses the influence of Italian neorealist films on world cinema well beyond the post-World War II period associated with the movement. Despite its lack of organization and relatively short life span, the Italian neorealist movement deeply influenced directors and film traditions around the world. This collection examines the impact of Italian neorealism beyond the period of 1945-52, the years conventionally connected to the movement, and beyond the postwar Italian film industry where the movement originated. Providing a refreshing aesthetic and ideological contrast to mainstream Hollywood films, neorealist filmmakers demonstrated not only how an engaging narrative technique could be brought to bear upon social issues but also how cinema could shape and redefine national identity. The fourteen essays in Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema consider films from Italy, India, Brazil, Africa, the Czech Republic, postwar Germany, Hong Kong, the United States, France, Belgium, Colombia, and Great Britain. Each essay explores neorealism's complex relationship to a different national film tradition, style, or historical period, illustrating the profound impact of neorealism and the ways it continues to complicate the relationship between ideas of nation, national cinema, and national identity. Many of the essays identify similar themes or motifs adapted from neorealism, and several essays address a politicized national film tradition that developed in opposition to a monolithic Western aesthetic. In all, Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema provides a novel critical understanding of the wide-ranging international impact of a short period in Italian cultural history. Film scholars and students of film history will appreciate this insightful text.