Italian silent cinema : a reader / edited by Giorgio Bertellini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bertellini, Giorgio, 1967-

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Silent films--Italy--History and criticism.

Silent films.

Motion pictures--Italy--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture industry.

History.

Italy.

Motion picture industry--Italy--History.

Physical Description:

vi, 401 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Barnet, Herts, U.K. : John Libbey & Co Ltd, [2013]

Contents:

Introduction : traveling lightness / Giorgio Bertellini

Silent film historiography and Italian (film) historiography / Gian Piero Brunetta

A brief cultural history of Italian film archives (1980-2005) / Paolo Cherchi Usai

Italy and pre-cinematic visual culture / Carlo Alberto Zotti Minici

Photography and cinema, and vice versa / Giorgio Bertellini

Visualizing the past : the Italian city in early cinema / Marco Bertozzi

The giant Ambrosio, or Italy's most prolific silent film company / Claudia Gianetto

The "Pastrone system" : Italia Film from the origins to World War I / Silvio Alovisio

Rome's premiere film studio : Società Italiana Cines / Kim Tomadjoglou

Milano Films : the exemplary history of a film company of the 1910s / Raffaele De Berti

Southern (and southernist) Italian cinema / Giorgio Bertellini

Italian cinema in the 1920s / Jacqueline Reich

From wonder to propaganda : the technological context of Italian silent cinema / Luca Giuliani

Non-fiction production / Aldo Bernardini

In hoc signo vinces : historical films / Giuliana Muscio

All the same or strategies of difference : early Italian comedies in international perspective / Ivo Blom

The diva-film : context, actresses, issues / Angela Dalle Vacche

Early Italian serials and (inter)national popular culture / Monica Dall'Asta

Futurist cinema : ideas and novelties / Giovanni Lista

Stracittà : cinema, rationalism, modernism, and Italy's "second futurism" / Leonardo Quaresima

Istituto Nazionale Luce : a national company with an international reach / Pierluigi Erbaggio

Film on paper : early Italian cinema literature, 1907-1920 / John P. Welle

On the language of silent films in Italy / Sergio Raffaelli

Famous actors, famous actresses : notes on acting style in Italian silent films / Francesco Pitassio

"Our beautiful and glorious art lives" : the rhetoric of nationalism in early Italian film periodicals / John David Rhodes

Italy's early film "theories" : borders and crossings / Francesco Casetti

Disordered traffic : film distribution in Italy (1905-1930) / Chiara Caranti

"Pictures from Italy" : Italian silent films in Britain, 1907-1915 / Pierluigi Ercole

Research on local moviegoing : trends and future perspectives / Paolo Caneppele

Where can I find Italian silent cinema? / Ivo Blom

Cinema on paper : researching non-filmic materials / Luca Mazzei

Bibliographic appendix : film exhibition and spectatorship / Paolo Caneppele.

Notes:

Most essays translated from Italian.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-369) and indexes.

ISBN:

0861966708

9780861966707

OCLC:

830946956

Publisher Number:

99956800573