A companion to Italian cinema / edited by Frank Burke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burke, Frank, editor.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to national cinemas

Wiley blackwell companions to national cinemas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Italy--History.

Motion pictures.

Italy.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxv, 618 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, W. Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

Summary:

Written by leading figures in the field and embracing the significant films, filmmakers, and historical moments of Italian cinema, A Companion to Italian Cinema re-maps the genre's rich history, capturing its celebrated intellectual and aesthetic verve and delineating its socio-political and formal contours from its origins to the early years of the 21st Century. Including essays from both established and more recent scholars, the Companion considers traditional areas of research such as neorealism, auteur cinema, commedia all'italiana, Italian silent cinema, politics, Catholicism, and terrorism. A significant section of the volume is also dedicated to more recent issues such as feminism, queer cinema, immigration, and digitalization. This volume addresses major films in the history of Italian cinema, from Cabiria (1914) to La grande bellezza (2013), and major directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, Antonioni, and Bertolucci. The role of music and issues of distribution and reception are also considered, and a comprehensive overview of the history of Italian cinema studies is provided. The result is a comprehensive, cutting-edge collection that will become a standard resource for academic and non-academic purposes alike. Book jacket.

Contents:

First things. Introduction / Frank Burke

Italian cinema studies: a conversation with Peter Bondanella / Frank Burke

Historical/chronological perspectives. Silent cinema : Silent Italian cinema: a new medium for old geographies / Giorgio Bertellini

Stardom in Italian silent cinema / Jacqueline Reich

Fascism and Italian cinema. Genre, politics, and the fascist subject in the cinema of Italy / Marcia Landy

The Italian film industry. Staying alive: the Italian film industry from the postwar to today / Barbara Corsi

Cinema and religion. Italian cinema and catholicism: from Vigilanti cura to Vatican II and beyond / Marco Vanelli

Neorealism. The Italian neorealist experience: the orphan-child and new ways of looking at the world / Lorenzo Borgotallo

Italian neorealism: quotidian storytelling and transnational horizons / Laura E. Ruberto and Kristi M. Wilson

Stardom and the 1950s. Italian film stars and their fans: the 1950s and early 1960s / Rika Buckley

Film comedy: the 1950s and beyond. The popularity of Italian film comedy / Louis Bayman

The question of Italian national character and the limits of commedia all-Italiana: Alberto Sordi, Federico Fellini, and Carlo Llizzani / Stephen Gundle

French-Italian film collaborations into the 1960s. Cross-fertilization between France and Italy from neorealism through the 1960's Adriano Apre. Auteur cinema (1960s and 1970s): Italian auteur cinema in a modernist context / Veronica Pravadelli

Popular film genres (1950s-1970s). Italian popular film genres / Austin Fisher

Politics and/of terrorism (1960s to the present). The representation of terrorism in Italian cinema / Christian Uva

Italian cinema from the 1970s to the present. From cinecitti to the small screen: Italian cinema after the mid-1970s crisis / Tiziana Ferrero-Regis

Contemporary Italian film in the new media world / Mary Wood

Alternative film forms. Thinking cinema: the essay film tradition in Italy / Laura Rascaroli

Italian experimental cinema: art, politics, poetry / Sandra Lischi

Notes on the history of Italian nonfiction film / Luca Caminati and Mauro Sassi

Critical, aesthetic, and theoretical issues. A century of music in Italian cinema / Emanuele d'Onofrio

The soundtrack in Italian cinema, a schizophonic take / Antonella Sisto

Watching Italians turn around: gender, looking, and roman/cinematic modernity / John David Rhodes

Women in Italian cinema: from the age of silent cinema to the third millennium / Bernadette Luciano and Susanna Scarparo

Imagining the mezzogiorno: old and new paradigms / Fulvio Orsitto

The queer of Italian cinema / Derek Duncan

Migrant visions: redefining Italian cinema in a globalized world /?ine O'Healy

How to tell time: Gilles Deleuze and Italian cinema / Angelo Restivo

The screen in the mirror: thematic and textual reflexivity in Italian cinema / Stefania Parigi

Globalizing the film experience: intertextuality in Italian cinema / Marguerite Waller

Last things. Forum: the present state and future prospects of Italian cinema and cinema studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Companion to Italian cinema.

ISBN:

9781444332285

1444332287

OCLC:

965445777

Publisher Number:

99974494400