| Author | : Giorgio Bertellini |
| Publisher | : Wallflower Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 9781903364987 |
Giorgio Bertellini examines the historical and aesthetic connections of some of Italy's most important films with both Italian and Western film culture.
| 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 | : Peter Bondanella |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 707 |
| Release | : 2019-07-25 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1839020245 |
THE ITALIAN CINEMA BOOK is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the present day. With contributions from 39 leading international scholars, the book is structured around six chronologically organised sections: THE SILENT ERA (1895–22) THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA (1922–45) POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE (1945–59) THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA (1960–80) AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION (1981 TO THE PRESENT) NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA Acutely aware of the contemporary 'rethinking' of Italian cinema history, Peter Bondanella has brought together a diverse range of essays which represent the cutting edge of Italian film theory and criticism. This provocative collection will provide the film student, scholar or enthusiast with a comprehensive understanding of the major developments in what might be called twentieth-century Italy's greatest and most original art form.
| 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 | : M. Günsberg |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2004-11-23 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0230510469 |
Maggie Günsberg examines popular genre cinema in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s, focussing on melodrama, commedia all'italiana , peplum, horror and the spaghetti western. These genres are explored from a gender standpoint which takes into account the historical and socio-economic context of cinematic production and consumption. An interdisciplinary feminist approach informed by current film theory and other perspectives (psychoanalytic, materialist, deconstructive), leads to the analysis of genre-specific representations of femininity and masculinity as constructed by the formal properties of 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 | : Rémi Lanzoni |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2020-09-08 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0814343805 |
The Cinema of Ettore Scola makes Scola accessible to English-reading audiences and helps readers better understand his film style, the major themes of his work, and the representations of twentieth-century Italian history in his films.
| Author | : Danny Shipka |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 350 |
| Release | : 2011-07-25 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0786486090 |
The exploitation film industry of Italy, Spain and France during the height of its popularity from 1960 to 1980 is the focus of this entertaining history. With subject matter running the gamut from Italian zombies to Spanish werewolves to French lesbian vampires, the shocking and profoundly entertaining motion pictures of the "Eurocult" genre are discussed from the standpoint of the films and the filmmakers, including such internationally celebrated auteurs as Mario Bava, Jess Franco, Jean Rollin and Paul Naschy. The Eurocult phenomenon is also examined in relation to the influences that European culture and environment have had on the world of exploitation cinema. The author's insight and expertise contribute to a greater understanding of what made these films special--and why they have remained so popular to later generations.
