Experimental and independent Italian cinema : legacies and transformations into the twenty-first century / edited by Anthony Cristiano and Carlo Coen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cristiano, Anthony, Author.

Contributor:

Cristiano, Anthony, editor.

Coen, Carlo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--Italy--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Independent films--Italy--History and criticism.

Independent films.

Motion pictures--Italy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 331 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Discussing a variety of independent and experimental Italian films, this book gives voice to a critcically neglected form of Italian cinema and explores the character of independent films and their related practices within the Italian historical, cultural and cinematic landscape.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Filmmaker and the Milanese Independent Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s

2 Light and Liminal: Marinella Pirelli’s Cinema

3 From Vertov to Cine-Journals: Cesare Zavattini’s Experimental Journey

4 Gianfranco Brebbia: The ‘Absurd’, Expanded Quality of Experimental Cinema (1962–73)

5 Italian Family Films: The Case of the Archivio Nazionale di Bologna

6 Independence as Opposition? Redefining Political Cinema Through the Case of Mirko Locatelli

7 Travelling the World: The Essay Films of Massimo Bacigalupo (1968–77)

8 Tales of Courage: Trade Stories of Italian Independent Cinema

9 Niccolò Bruna’s Ethical Process as Social Engagement: Upholding Human Stories against a Backdrop of Globalisation

10 The Paradox of ‘Independence’ in Cyberspace: The Case of Italian Experimental and Independent Cinema

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Oct 2020).

ISBN:

1-4744-7405-5

OCLC:

1306540539