The Italian Actress
Author | : Frank Lentricchia |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781441635464 |
A has-been American filmmaker encounters love, cruelty, and death in Italy.
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Author | : Frank Lentricchia |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781441635464 |
A has-been American filmmaker encounters love, cruelty, and death in Italy.
Author | : Frank Lentricchia |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2010-03-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1438430469 |
Set in Italy, Frank Lentricchia's sixth novel features a has-been Italian American filmmaker, once internationally acclaimed for the beauty of his images and his experiments in pornography but now stuck in prolonged creative drought. At an obscure film festival in Volterra he meets the aging but still stunning Claudia Cardinale, star of Fellini's 81⁄2. She falls in love with him, but he resists, yet all the while wanting not to resist. Instead of remaining with Cardinale, he casts his lot with a perverse but compelling couple who convince him that he can regain his renown and achieve artistic immortality if he will only make a new film starring the two of them—an explicitly sexual film of shocking violence. The Italian Actress is a meditation, by turns lyrical and bluntly brutal, on our obsession with celebrity, ambition, the cult of youthful beauty, romantic desire, the aging body, mortality, the power of the visual image, and underneath it all, the nature of visuality itself.
Author | : Frank Lentricchia |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1438430442 |
Set in Italy, Frank Lentricchias sixth novel features a has-been Italian American filmmaker, once internationally acclaimed for the beauty of his images and his experiments in pornography but now stuck in prolonged creative drought. At an obscure film festival in Volterra he meets the aging but still stunning Claudia Cardinale, star of Fellinis 81⁄2. She falls in love with him, but he resists, yet all the while wanting not to resist. Instead of remaining with Cardinale, he casts his lot with a perverse but compelling couple who convince him that he can regain his renown and achieve artistic immortality if he will only make a new film starring the two of theman explicitly sexual film of shocking violence. The Italian Actress is a meditation, by turns lyrical and bluntly brutal, on our obsession with celebrity, ambition, the cult of youthful beauty, romantic desire, the aging body, mortality, the power of the visual image, and underneath it all, the nature of visuality itself.
Author | : Stefano Masi |
Publisher | : Gremese Editore |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9788873010715 |
The careers, films and best photos of Italian divas.
Author | : Cindy De La Hoz |
Publisher | : Running Press Adult |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0762461322 |
The first book on Sophia of its kind, Sophia Loren: Movie Star Italian Style is a photographic tribute to the beloved icon, recounting the star's extraordinary life and notable films. From the humblest of beginnings in her native Italy, Sophia Loren has gone on to have one of the most interesting paths in motion picture history. In a career spanning close to seven decades, she starred in epic blockbusters of the '50s, '60s, and '70s; dazzled in dramatic roles opposite the likes of Cary Grant, Marcello Mastroianni, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, and Marlon Brando; and turned heads in classics like Houseboat, Marriage Italian Style, Grumpy Old Men, and Two Women, for which she was awarded the first Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role given to the star of a foreign film. Sophia Loren is a photographic tribute to the beloved icon, taking you on an illustrative journey through her remarkable life, dearest relationships, and diverse film canon. Filled with hundreds of rare color and black-and-white photographs and featuring quotes by Sophia and those who have known her best, it's a volume as stunning as its ageless subject.
Author | : P. Morris |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2006-10-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 023060143X |
This volume brings together specialists from a variety of disciplines to develop a deeper understanding of the social, political, and cultural history of women in Italy in the years 1946-1960. Despite being a time when women and the family were at the center of national debates, and when society changed considerably, the fifteen years following the Second World War have tended to be overlooked or subsumed into discussions of other periods. By focusing on the experience of women and by broadening the frame of reference to include subjects and sources often ignored, or only alluded to, by traditional analyses, the essays in this volume break new ground and provide a corrective to previous interpretive models.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2017-09-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781614286325 |
Alain Elkann has mastered the art of the interview. With a background in novels and journalism, and having published over twenty books translated across ten languages, he infuses his interviews with innovation, allowing them to flow freely and organically. Alain Elkann Interviews will provide an unprecedented window into the minds of some of the most well-known and -respected figures of the last twenty-five years.
Author | : Frank Lentricchia |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2000-10-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0791493423 |
At eighteen Robert Tagliaferro, an orphan of ambiguous racial and ethnic identity, disappears from his hometown of Utica, New York. At sixty he returns, forgotten by nearly everyone and searching the bin of memory for something to salvage. Having lived for decades inside a bookstore, his search for identity has taken him into the world of great literature and the history of Utica itself, and so his quest must be to create a memory, a history, and an identity from his reading. He becomes a man made of words, a patchwork of styles and rhetoric, an artifice. In the cellar of a restaurant, Robert tells his stories of the past to six other men: stories of Utica, of New York State, and ultimately of America itself, as well as of the intimate involvement of Italian immigrants with these histories. The other characters respond in a kind of collective storytelling, a play of voices probing the various themes of history, genealogy, fatherhood, race, lost children, the presentness of the past, community, and, finally, storytelling itself as the power guiding all, informing their sense of everything, as they grope imaginatively toward a sense of life and their place in it. Rich in literary heritage and allusion, The Music of the Inferno is an unusual, deft, often piercing meditation on storytelling, ethnicity, and the Italian American experience.
Author | : Addison McLeod |
Publisher | : London : Smith, Elder |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Actors |
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Author | : Sidney Gottlieb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2004-06-14 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780521545198 |
Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it has been credited with initiating a revolution in and reinvention of modern cinema, bold claims that are substantiated when its impact on how films are conceptualized, made, structured, theorized, circulated, and viewed is examined. This volume offers a fresh look at the production history of Rome Open City; some of its key images, and particularly its representation of the city and various types of women; its cinematic influences and affinities; the complexity of its political dimensions, including the film's vision of political struggle and the political uses to which the film was put; and the legacy of the film in public consciousness. It serves as a well illustrated, up to date, and accessible introduction to one of the major achievements of filmmaking.