Vital crises in Italian cinema : iconography, stylistics, politics / P. Adams Sitney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sitney, P. Adams.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Italy--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Italy--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1995, P. Adams Sitney's Vital Crises in Italian Cinema has become a work of enduring importance in the study of Italian films produced from 1945 to 196. Examining over twenty key works of the period, Sitney identifies and explores the major thematic crises at the heart of seminal films produced by the likes of Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Michael Antonioni, and Federico Fellini. The debate over regional dialects and a unified national language find reflection in Visconti's La terra trema and its source, the novel I Malavoglia. The father-son relationship serves as an

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface to the Revised Edition; Preface to Original Edition; 1. Introduction; 2. Rossellini's Resistance; 3. Visconti: The National Language, Dialect, and the Southern Question; 4. De Sica's and Zavattini's Neopopulism; 5. Between the Vital Crises; 6. Annus Mirabilis; Illustrations; 7. Antonioni's Psychoanalysis of the "Boom"; 8. New Wave Neorealism: Pasolini, Olmi, Rosi; 9. Conclusion; 10. Epilogue: Pastoral Education in Language and Politics; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-932410-7

1-283-96086-9

0-19-989306-3

OCLC:

826853929