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A new guide to Italian cinema / Carlo Celli and Marga Cottino-Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Celli, Carlo, 1963-
- Series:
- Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
- Italian and Italian American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Italy--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and directors but is also attentive to the popular films which achieved box office success among the public.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Remote History
- 1 Italy from Unification to World War I
- The Cultural Scene
- Origins of Italian Cinema
- Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria and Gabriele D'Annunzio
- Divismo
- 2 The Fascist Years (1922-43)
- Film in Fascist Italy
- Alessandro Blasetti
- Mario Camerini and White Telephone Comedies
- Precursors of Neorealism
- 3 World War II
- The Cultural and Literary Roots of Neorealism
- Neorealism in Film
- Roberto Rossellini and Open City (1945)
- 4 Reconstruction and the Late '40s
- Film: The Late 1940s
- 5 The 1950s
- The Development of Neorealism
- The Visconti-Fellini Debate
- De Sica, Television, and Popular Film in the 1950s
- 6 The Early 1960s
- The Economic Boom
- Italian Cinema Boom
- Commedia all'italiana (Comedy Italian Style)
- The Spaghetti Western of Sergio Leone
- 7 The Later 1960s
- Art Cinema
- Roberto Rossellini
- Luchino Visconti
- Federico Fellini
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Vittorio De Sica
- Art Cinema Newcomers
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- 8 The 1970s
- Film and Television in the 1970s and 1980s
- Comedies and Popular Cinema in the 1970s
- Political Film/Instant Movie
- The Poliziesco Crime Genre
- The Heirs to Italian Art Cinema
- 9 The 1980s and 1990s: A Changing Society
- The "New Italian Cinema
- A Nostalgic Narrative
- Benigni's La vita è bella
- 10 The Next Millennium
- Italian Cinema in the New Millennium
- Appendix 1: Short Introduction to Film Study
- Appendix 2: Box Office
- Appendix 3: The Major Directors
- Appendix 4: Italian Political Parties
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611361327
- 9781281361325
- 1281361321
- 9780230601826
- 0230601820
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