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Italian Giallo in Film and Television

Roberto Curti
Italian Giallo in Film and Television Book PDF

Author : Roberto Curti
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476682488

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Italian Giallo in Film and Television by Roberto Curti Pdf

Since the release in 1929 of a popular book series with bright yellow covers, the Italian word giallo (yellow) has come to define a whole spectrum of mystery and detective fiction and films. Although most English speakers associate the term giallo with the violent and erotic thrillers popular in the 1960s and 1970s from directors like Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and others, the term encompasses a wide range of Italian media such as mysteries, thrillers and detective stories--even comedies and political pamphlets. As films like Blood and Black Lace (1964) and Deep Red (1975) have received international acclaim, giallo is a fluid and dynamic genre that has evolved throughout the decades. This book examines the many facets of the giallo genre --narrative, style, themes, and influences. It explores Italian films, made-for-TV films and miniseries from the dawn of sound cinema to the present, discussing their impact on society, culture and mores.

The Italian Cinema Book

Peter Bondanella
The Italian Cinema Book Book PDF

Author : Peter Bondanella
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781839020247

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The Italian Cinema Book by Peter Bondanella Pdf

THE ITALIAN CINEMA BOOK is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the present day. With contributions from 39 leading international scholars, the book is structured around six chronologically organised sections: THE SILENT ERA (1895–22) THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA (1922–45) POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE (1945–59) THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA (1960–80) AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION (1981 TO THE PRESENT) NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA Acutely aware of the contemporary 'rethinking' of Italian cinema history, Peter Bondanella has brought together a diverse range of essays which represent the cutting edge of Italian film theory and criticism. This provocative collection will provide the film student, scholar or enthusiast with a comprehensive understanding of the major developments in what might be called twentieth-century Italy's greatest and most original art form.

Italian Film

Marcia Landy
Italian Film Book PDF

Author : Marcia Landy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521649773

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Italian Film by Marcia Landy Pdf

Examines the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present.

Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium

William Hope
Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium Book PDF

Author : William Hope
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527553453

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Italian Film Directors in the New Millennium by William Hope Pdf

This collection of essays examines the themes and styles that characterize the new millennium work of Italian film directors from different generations. These artists range from Marco Bellocchio, Dario Argento, Marco Tullio Giordana, and Nanni Moretti, who made their name in the 1960s and 1970s, to Oscar winners such as Gabriele Salvatores who forged their careers in the late 1980s. The volume also features essays on Ciprì and Maresco, Emanuele Crialese, Cristina Comencini, as well as work on successful new millennium directors such as Paolo Sorrentino and Matteo Garrone whose controversial films examine the nature of interpersonal relations and the individual’s rapport with Italian society today. The essays illustrate the way in which contrasting images of Italy and its provinces emerge in the work of different directors; what links new millennium Italian screen protagonists, film directors, and even individual spectators is often a sense of being at the centre of oppressively converging social, economic, and political forces and having diminishing opportunities and space for self-realization. The contributors to the volume are academics who have also worked as film critics, visual artists, film industry administrators, and, indeed, as film-makers, and the book’s foreword has been written by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.

The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry

Marina Nicoli
The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry Book PDF

Author : Marina Nicoli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317654377

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The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry by Marina Nicoli Pdf

Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and Leone, and actors like Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni known to audiences around the world. But by the end of the 1980s, the Italian film industry was all but dead. The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry traces the rise of the industry from its origins in the 19th century to its worldwide success in the 1960s, and its rapid decline in the subsequent decades. It does so by looking at cinema as an institution – subject to the interplay between the spheres of art, business, and politics at the national and international level. By examining the roles of a wide range of stakeholders (including film directors, producers, exhibitors, the public, and the critics) as well as the system of funding and the influence of governments, author Marina Nicoli demonstrates that the Italian film industry succeeded when all three spheres were aligned, but suffered and ultimately failed when they each pursued contradictory objectives. This in-depth case study makes an important contribution to the long-standing debate about promoting and protecting domestic cultures, particularly in the face of culturally dominant and politically- and economically-powerful creative industries from the United States. The Rise and Fall of the Italian Film Industry will be of particular interest to business and economic historians, cinema historians, media specialists, and cultural economists.

Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama

Louis Bayman
Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama Book PDF

Author : Louis Bayman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474402873

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Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama by Louis Bayman Pdf

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.

Italian Film in the Present Tense

Millicent Marcus
Italian Film in the Present Tense Book PDF

Author : Millicent Marcus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781487546205

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Italian Film in the Present Tense by Millicent Marcus Pdf

For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini’s death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinema as a whole. Exploring an eclectic sampling of works from the new millennium, Italian Film in the Present Tense confronts this narrative of decline with strong evidence to the contrary. Millicent Marcus highlights Italian cinema’s new sources of industrial strength, its re-placement of the Rome-centred studio system with regional film commissions, its contemporary breakthroughs on the aesthetic front, and its vital engagement with the changing economic and socio-political circumstances in twenty-first-century Italian life. Examining works that stand out for their formal brilliance and their moral urgency, the book presents a series of fourteen case studies, featuring analyses of such renowned films as Il Divo, Gomorrah, The Great Beauty, We Have a Pope, The Mafia Only Kills in the Summer, and Fire at Sea, along with lesser-known works deserving of serious critical scrutiny. In doing so, Italian Film in the Present Tense contests the widely held perception of a medium languishing in its "post-Fellini" moment, and instead acknowledges the ethical persistence and forward-looking currents of Italian cinema in the present tense.

Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz

Millicent Joy Marcus
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Author : Millicent Joy Marcus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802091895

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Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz by Millicent Joy Marcus Pdf

Throughout the book, Marcus brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the question of how Italian filmmakers are confronting the Holocaust, and why now given the sparse output of Holocaust films produced in Italy from 1945 to the early 1990s.

Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film

Giuliana Minghelli
Landscape and Memory in Post Fascist Italian Film Book PDF

Author : Giuliana Minghelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135104818

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Landscape and Memory in Post-Fascist Italian Film by Giuliana Minghelli Pdf

This study argues that neorealism’s visual genius is inseparable from its almost invisible relation to the Fascist past: a connection inscribed in cinematic landscapes. While largely a silent narrative, neorealism’s complex visual processing of two decades of Fascism remains the greatest cultural production in the service of memorialization and comprehension for a nation that had neither a Nuremberg nor a formal process of reconciliation. Through her readings of canonical neorealist films, Minghelli unearths the memorial strata of the neorealist image and investigates the complex historical charge that invests this cinema. This book is both a formal analysis of the new conception of the cinematic image born from a crisis of memory, and a reflection on the relation between cinema and memory. Films discussed include Ossessione (1943) Paisà (1946), Ladri di biciclette (1948), and Cronaca di un amore (1950).

Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism

Millicent Marcus
Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism Book PDF

Author : Millicent Marcus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691209470

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Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism by Millicent Marcus Pdf

The movement known as neorealism lasted seven years, generated only twenty-one films, failed at the box office, and fell short of its didactic and aesthetic aspirations. Yet it exerted such a profound influence on Italian cinema that all the best postwar directors had to come to terms with it, whether in seeming imitation (the early Olmi), in commercial exploitation (the middle Comencini) or in ostensible rejection (the recent Tavianis). Despite the reactionary pressures of the marketplace and the highly personalized visions of Fellini, Antonioni. And Visconti, Italian cinema has maintained its moral commitment to use the medium in socially responsible ways--if not to change the world, as the first neorealists hoped, then at least to move filmgoers to face the pressing economic, political, and human problems in their midst. From Rossellini's Open City (1945) to the Taviani brothers' Night of the Shooting Stars (1982). The author does close readings of seventeen films that tell the story of neorealism's evolving influence on Italian postwar cinematic expression. Other films discussed are De Sica's Bicycle Thief and Umberto D. De Santis's Bitter Rice, Comencini's Bread, Love, and Fantasy, Fellini's La strada, Visconti's Senso, Antonioni's Red Desert, Olmi's Il Posto, Germi's Seduced and Abandoned, Pasolini's Teorema, Petri's Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion, Bertolucci's The Conformist, Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli, and Wertmuller's Love and Anarchy, Scola's We All Loved Each Other So Much provides the occasion for the author's own retrospective consideration of how Italian cinema has fulfilled, or disappointed, the promise of neorealism.

Italian Film Posters

Dave Kehr
Italian Film Posters Book PDF

Author : Dave Kehr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015058097133

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Italian Film Posters by Dave Kehr Pdf

First English collection of some of the most beautiful and fascinating Italian film posters.

Italian Cinema

William Hope
Italian Cinema Book PDF

Author : William Hope
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3039102826

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Italian Cinema by William Hope Pdf

"This book explores the evolution of Italian cinema over the last twenty years, with particular reference to modern masterpieces such as Tornatore's Oscar-winning Nuovo cinema paradiso. The volume focuses on the work of some of the most prominent directors of recent times, combining an auteurist perspective with an incisive overview of the most important thematic and stylistic developments in modern Italian film-making." --book cover.

Italian Horror Film Directors

Louis Paul
Italian Horror Film Directors Book PDF

Author : Louis Paul
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786487493

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Italian Horror Film Directors by Louis Paul Pdf

There is no cinema with such effect as that of the hallucinatory Italian horror film. From Riccardo Freda’s I Vampiri in 1956 to Il Cartaio in 2004, this work recounts the origins of the genre, celebrates at length ten of its auteurs, and discusses the noteworthy films of many others associated with the genre. The directors discussed in detail are Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Mario Bava, Ruggero Deodato, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Antonio Margheriti, Aristide Massaccesi, Bruno Mattei, and Michele Soavi. Each chapter includes a biography, a detailed career account, discussion of influences both literary and cinematic, commentary on the films, with plots and production details, and an exhaustive filmography. A second section contains short discussions and selected filmographies of other important horror directors. The work concludes with a chapter on the future of Italian horror and an appendix of important horror films by directors other than the 50 profiled. Stills, posters, and behind-the-scenes shots illustrate the book.

A History of Italian Cinema

Peter Bondanella,Federico Pacchioni
A History of Italian Cinema Book PDF

Author : Peter Bondanella,Federico Pacchioni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501307652

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A History of Italian Cinema by Peter Bondanella,Federico Pacchioni Pdf

A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni reorganize the current History in order to keep the book fresh and responsive not only to the actual films being created in Italy in the twenty-first century but also to the rapidly changing priorities of Italian film studies and film scholars. The new edition brings the definitive history of the subject, from the birth of cinema to the present day, up to date with a revised filmography as well as more focused attention on the melodrama, the crime film, and the historical drama. The book is expanded to include a new generation of directors as well as to highlight themes such as gender issues, immigration, and media politics. Accessible, comprehensive, and heavily illustrated throughout, this is an essential purchase for any fan of Italian film.

Italian Cinema

Barry Forshaw
Italian Cinema Book PDF

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781843449119

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Italian Cinema by Barry Forshaw Pdf

From the unbridled sensuality of silent Italian films, to the neorealist classic Bitter Rice, to the astonishing imagination of Fellini and the more cerebral and fascinating movies of Antonioni, Italy has a filmic legacy unlike that of any other nation. And then there are the popular movies: the lively sword and sandal epics of the peplum era through to the inextricable mix of sexuality and violence in the gialli of such directors as Mario Bava and Dario Argento. All the glory of Italian cinema is celebrated here in comprehensive essays, along with every key film in an easy-to-use reference format. This new and greatly expanded edition takes in major modern hits such as The Great Beauty/La Grande Bellezza. The new generation of Italian film and TV successes, important directors and movements of the past are are all given fresh and incisive evaluations, with every kind of film examined, from arthouse classics to the Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone and co., and the stylish, blood-drenched thrillers and horror films that redefined their respective genres. 'Italian cinema is celebrated here with astute analysis in the sharply informative essays of Barry Forshaw' - John Pitt, New Classics 'No one -- but no one -- composes brief essays on films that are as expert, as complete and as engaging as Barry Forshaw' - Donald Spoto Look out for Barry Forshaw's Noir series, which includes Euro Noir, Nordic Noir, Brit Noir, American Noir and Historical Noir, and for his latest book, Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide.