The Italian Cinema Book
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Peter Bondanella (Útgáfa: 1)
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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.
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- Bloomsbury UK
- 9781839020247
- 9781844574056
- ePub
- 1
- Peter Bondanella
- English
- 2019-07-25
- 100
- 2
- 2
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- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- General Introduction: Rethinking Italian Cinema
- Part One / The Silent Era
- Introduction
- 1. Silent Italian Cinema: An International Story
- 2. The Beginnings of Film Stardom and the Print Media of Divismo
- 3. The Diva Film: Context, Actresses, Issues
- 4. Italian Silent Film Genres: Comics, Serials, Historical Epics and Strongmen
- Part Two / The Birth of the Talkies and the Fascist Era
- Introduction
- 5. Fascism and Italian Cinema
- 6. Italian Matinee Idols in the Era of the Talkies
- 7. The First Comedy, Italian Style: Blasetti, Camerini and De Sica
- 8. Censorship from the Fascist Period to the Present
- Part Three / Postwar Cinematic Culture – Realism and Beyond
- Introduction
- 9. Neorealism and Left-wing Culture
- 10. Cityscapes and Cinematic Space
- 11. Dislocated Spaces for New Thought: Paths of Nomadic Wandering in Neorealist Film and Literature
- 12. Seeing Anew: Children in Italian Cinema, 1944 to the Present
- 13. Italian Cinema from the Perspective of Female Friendship
- 14. The Maggiorata or Sweater Girl of the 1950s: Mangano, Lollobrigida, Loren
- 15. Hollywood and Italy: Industries and Fantasies
- Part Four / The Golden Age of Italian Cinema
- Introduction
- 16. Material Dreams: Costume and Couture Italian Style: From Hollywood on the Tiber to the Italian Screen
- 17. Italian Film Music
- 18. Production around 1960
- 19. The Muscleman Peplum: From Le fatiche di Ercole (1958) to Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965)
- 20. Mondo Cane and the Invention of the Shockumentary
- 21. Spaghetti Westerns and Their Audience
- 22. Chronicles of a Hastened Modernisation: The Cynical Eye of the Commedia all’italiana
- 23. The Political Film
- 24. The Giallo and the Spaghetti Nightmare Film
- 25. European Co-productions and Artistic Collaborations: The Italian Response to the Hollywood Studio System
- 26. How the Italians Happened to Cherish and Then to Disdain Their Cinema
- Part Five / An Age of Crisis, Transition and Consolidation
- Introduction
- 29. Scriptwriting, Italian Style: Scriptwriting for Fellini
- 28. Modern Mob Movies: Twenty Years of Gangsters on the Italian Screen
- 29. Screening Terrorism: Cinematic Portrayals of the Italian Armed Struggle
- 30. Italian Cinema and Holocaust Memory
- 31. Italian National Cinema: The Cinepanettone
- 32. Stars and Masculinity in Contemporary Italian Cinema
- 33. Women behind the Camera: New Horizons in Contemporary Cinema
- Part Six / New Directions in Critical Approaches to Italian Cinema
- Introduction
- 34. Italian Cinema in the Post-national Age
- 35. Post-colonial Theory and Italy’s ‘Multicultural’ Cinema
- 36. Italian Film Genres and Mario Bava
- 37. The Unwanted Guest: Some Remarks on Italian Cinema’s Love Affair with Psychoanalysis
- 38. Fellini and Contemporary International Cinema Peter Bondanella
- 39. The Heritage of the Past and New Frontiers for the History of Italian Cinema
- Select Bibliography on Italian Cinema
- Index
- List of Illustrations
- eCopyright