Italian cinema : from neorealism to the present / Peter Bondanella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bondanella, Peter, 1943-2017.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Italy--History.

Motion pictures.

Italy.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2001.

Summary:

Italian Cinema is the only complete and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language. New coverage from 1989 to the present includes the Italian horror-film genre, Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful et al.), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty), Franco Zeffirelli (Tea with Mussolini), Michael Radford (The Postman Il postino), Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo), Maurizio Nichetti (The Bicycle Thief et al.), Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, The Starmaker), and much more. The book has been extensively revised and updated, including all-new notes, bibliography, plus videocassette and DVD information.

Contents:

1. Background: The Silent Era and the Fascist Period 1

2. The Masters of Neorealism: Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti 31

3. Exploring the Boundaries of Neorealism 74

4. The Break with Neorealism: Rossellini in Transition, Early Antonioni and Fellini 103

5. A Decisive Decade: Commedia all'italiana, Neorealism's Legacy, and a New Generation 142

6. The Mature Auteurs: New Dimensions in Film Narrative with Visconti, Antonioni, and Fellini 196

7. A Fistful of Pasta: Sergio Leone and the Spaghetti Western 253

8. Myth and Marx: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci 275

9. Politics and Ideology in the Contemporary Italian Cinema 318

10. The Contemporary Scene and New Italian Comedy 347

11. Italian Cinema in the 1980s 384

12. The Italian Cinema Enters the Third Millennium 425.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-531) and index.

ISBN:

0826412475

OCLC:

45320837