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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayman, Louis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Italy--History.

Motion pictures.

Melodrama in motion pictures.

Melodrama, Italian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Operatic & the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form. Key Features * Connects less established areas of research such as popular neorealism to more well-known subjects such as domestic melodrama * Provides an analysis of cineopera or opera film * Helps to pioneer the area of popular Italian cinema * Contributes to both Italian Studies and Film Studies

Contents:

Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction: Why melodrama?; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Conclusion; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).

ISBN:

1-4744-0286-0

1-4744-0094-9

0-7486-5643-X

OCLC:

1306541718