The operatic and the everyday in post-war Italian film melodrama / Louis Bayman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayman, Louis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Italy--History.

Motion pictures.

Italy.

History.

Melodrama in motion pictures.

Melodrama, Italian.

Physical Description:

xi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014].

Summary:

This book deals with melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to the re-establishment of the post-war Italian film industry, ensuring cinema's position at the forefront of 20th century mass culture. Melodrama interacts with the well-documented genres of neorealist and art cinema are well documented but it is through melodrama that one can discover most about national culture in Italy at this time, understand film's relationship to popular habits and ideas, and draw the true history of cinema. It connects less established areas of research such as popular neorealism to more well-known subjects such as domestic melodrama. It provides an analysis of cineopera or opera film. It helps to pioneer the area of popular Italian cinema. It contributes to both Italian Studies and Film.

Contents:

Chapter 1 8

I Genre 8

II Emotion 27

III Worldview 43

Chapter 2 76

I Melodrama, realism, modernism 76

II Popular neorealism 103

Chapter 3 128

I Opera and cinema 129

II Cultural hybridity 145

III Matarazzo and Visconti 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-214) and index.

Filmography: pages [187]-198.

ISBN:

9780748656424

0748656421

OCLC:

867725105