The Cinema Of Francesco Rosi

Author : Gaetana Marrone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190885663

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The Cinema of Francesco Rosi by Gaetana Marrone Pdf

Francesco Rosi is one of the great realist artists of post-war Italian, indeed post-war world cinema. In this book, author Gaetana Marrone explores the rich visual language in which the Neapolitan filmmaker expresses the cultural icons that constitute his style and images. Over the years, Rosi has offered us films that trace an intricate path between the real and the fictive, the factual and the imagined. His films show an extraordinarily consistent formal balance while representing historical events as social emblems that examine, shape, and reflect the national self. They rely on a labyrinthine narrative structure, in which the sense of an enigma replaces the unidirectional path leading ineluctably to a designated end and solution. Rosi's logical investigations are conducted by an omniscient eye and translated into a cinematic approach that embraces the details of material reality with the panoramic perspective of a dispassionate observer. This book offers intertextual analyses within such fields as history, politics, literature, and photography, along with production information gleaned from Rosi's personal archives and interviews. It examines Rosi's creative use of film as document, and as spectacle). It is also a study of the specific cinematic techniques that characterize Rosi's work and that visually, compositionally, express his vision of history and the elusive "truth" of past and present social and political realities.

Author : Carlo Testa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Italy
ISBN : UOM:39015038549328

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Poet of Civic Courage by Carlo Testa Pdf

Author : Fabrizio Cilento
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319926810

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An Investigative Cinema by Fabrizio Cilento Pdf

This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies. These documentary-like films refrain from a simplistic reconstruction of historical events and are mainly concerned with what does not immediately appear on the surface of events. Consequently, they raise questions about the nature of the “truth” promoted by institutions, newspapers, and media reports. By highlighting unanswered questions, they leave us with a lack of clarity, and the questioning of documentation becomes the actual narrative. Investigative cinema is examined in relation to the historical conjunctures of the “economic miracle” in Italy, the simultaneous decolonization and reordering of culture in France, the waves of globalization and neoliberalism in post-dictatorial Latin America, and the post-Watergate, post-9/11 climate in US society. Investigative cinema is exemplified by the films Salvatore Giuliano, The Battle of Algiers, The Parallax View, Gomorrah, Zero Dark Thirty, and Citizenfour.

Author : Howard Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857719782

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Cinema Italiano by Howard Hughes Pdf

Italian filmmakers have created some of the most magical and moving, violent and controversial films in world cinema. During its twentieth-century heyday, Italy's film industry was second only to Hollywood as a popular film factory, exporting cinematic dreams with multinational casts to the world, ranging across multiple genres. 'Cinema Italiano' is the first book to discuss comprehensively and in depth this Italian cinema, both popular and arthouse. It is illustrated throughout with rare stills and international posters from this revered era in European cinema and reviews over 350 movies. Howard Hughes uncovers this treasure trove of Italian films, from Lucino Visconti's epic 'The Leopard' to the cult superhero movie 'Puma Man'. Dario Argento's bloody 'gialli' thrillers and Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns are explored alongside films of Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Michelangelo Antonioni. Chapters discuss the rise and fall of genres such as mythological epics, gothic horrors, science fiction, spy films, war movies, costume adventures, zombie films, swashbucklers, political cinema and 'poliziotteschi' crime films. They also trace the directorial careers of Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Francesco Rosi, Lucio Fulci, Duccio Tessari, Enzo G. Castellari, Bernardo Bertolucci and Gillo Pontecorvo.

Author : Sabine Schrader,Daniel Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443869942

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The Cinemas of Italian Migration by Sabine Schrader,Daniel Winkler Pdf

Italy is more strongly influenced by the experiences of migrants than many other European countries. This includes an historically ongoing internal migration from the south to the north, which is strongly echoed in neo-realism; a mass emigration mainly to western Europe and North and South America that is connected with mafia films, among others, in Italy's collective imaginary; as well as a more recent immigration influx from the southwestern Mediterranean, which is dealt with at a film leve...

Author : Dana Renga
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781487510473

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Mafia Movies by Dana Renga Pdf

The mafia has always fascinated filmmakers and television producers. Al Capone, Salvatore Giuliano, Lucky Luciano, Ciro Di Marzio, Roberto Saviano, Don Vito and Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are some of the historical and fictional figures that contribute to the myth of the Italian and Italian-American mafias perpetuated onscreen. This collection looks at mafia movies and television over time and across cultures, from the early classics to the Godfather trilogy and contemporary Italian films and television series. The only comprehensive collection of its type, Mafia Movies treats over fifty films and TV shows created since 1906, while introducing Italian and Italian-American mafia history and culture. The second edition includes new original essays on essential films and TV shows that have emerged since the publication of the first edition, such as Boardwalk Empire and Mob Wives, as well as a new roundtable section on Italy’s “other” mafias in film and television, written as a collaborative essay by more than ten scholars. The edition also introduces a new section called “Double Takes” that elaborates on some of the most popular mafia films and TV shows (e.g. The Godfather and The Sopranos) organized around themes such as adaptation, gender and politics, urban spaces, and performance and stardom.

Author : Dai Vaughan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520216952

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For Documentary by Dai Vaughan Pdf

This collection of essays offers insights into documentary. Stating that people may feel the word documentary had not justified its place in the dictionary if the films so called did not manifest some relationship with the world.

Author : Millicent Joy Marcus
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0801868475

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After Fellini by Millicent Joy Marcus Pdf

In this work, Marcus interprets a body of work that managed to transcend the decline of Italian cinema's prominence within the industry during the last two decades of the 20th-century.

Author : Marcia J. Citron,Professor Marcia J Citron
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0300081588

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Opera on Screen by Marcia J. Citron,Professor Marcia J Citron Pdf

"The author draws on ideas from diverse fields, including media studies and gender studies, to examine issues ranging from the relationship between sound and image to the place of the viewer in relation to the spectacle. As she raises questions about divisions between high art and popular art and about the tensions between live and reproduced art forms, Citron reveals how screen treatments reinforce opera's vitality in a media-intensive age."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Emilio Lussu
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780847842797

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A Soldier on the Southern Front by Emilio Lussu Pdf

A rediscovered World War I masterpiece—one of the few memoirs about the Italian front—for fans of military history and All Quiet on the Western Front An infantryman’s “harrowing, moving, [and] occasionally comic” account of trench warfare on the alpine front seen in A Farewell to Arms (Times Literary Supplement). Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu’s memoir as an infantryman is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it reveals in spare and detached prose the almost farcical side of the war as seen by a Sardinian officer fighting the Austrian army on the Asiago plateau in northeastern Italy—the alpine front so poignantly evoked by Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms. For Lussu, June 1916 to July 1917 was a year of continuous assaults on impregnable trenches, absurd missions concocted by commanders full of patriotic rhetoric and vanity but lacking in tactical skill, and episodes often tragic and sometimes grotesque, where the incompetence of his own side was as dangerous as the attacks waged by the enemy. A rare firsthand account of the Italian front, Lussu’s memoir succeeds in staging a fierce indictment of the futility of war in a dry, often ironic style that sets his tale wholly apart from the Western Front of Remarque and adds an astonishingly modern voice to the literature of the Great War.

Author : N. Pasqualicchio,A. Scandola
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 8857548791

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Francesco Rosi. Il cinema e oltre by N. Pasqualicchio,A. Scandola Pdf

Author : Mary Wood
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1845201612

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Italian Cinema by Mary Wood Pdf

Italian Cinema presents an overview and analysis of one of the most prolific and influential of national cinemas. Italian film has always drawn on a wide range of popular themes - from ancient history to the mafia, the family, the Risorgimento, terrorism, corruption and immigration - and on an equally diverse range of film genres - from comedy to westerns, horror, soft-porn, epics and thrillers. Commercial constraints, state and European funding, international competition, as much as cultural and political trends, have all influenced the sorts of film that get made and exported. Outlining the artistic, cultural, technical and commercial context of film, Italian Cinema presents a history from silent to contemporary film. As well as illuminating the work of classic directors such as Visconti, Fellini, Rossellini, Antonioni and Rosi, the book explores the interaction between art and popular cinema, visual style and spectacle, space and architecture, gender representations and politics.

Author : Francesco Bolzoni
Publisher : Gremese Editore
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 8876052410

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I film di Francesco Rosi by Francesco Bolzoni Pdf

Author : Nicola Pasqualicchio,Alberto Scandola
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9788857556581

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Francesco Rosi. Il cinema e oltre by Nicola Pasqualicchio,Alberto Scandola Pdf

Racchiusa nell’angusta etichetta del realismo, contrapposto in più occasioni a un non meglio precisato «cinema di invenzione», la poetica di Francesco Rosi rinvia a una storia sola: quella di un Paese, l’Italia del secondo dopoguerra, segnato da crimini, misfatti e misteri ancora oggi indecifrabili. Film come Le mani sulla città, Salvatore Giuliano, Il caso Mattei e Cadaveri eccellenti appaiono ancora oggi esempi insuperati di un cinema al contempo poetico e politico, dove la ricerca espressiva si coniuga con l’impegno civile. I saggi contenuti nel presente volume, che raccoglie gli atti del convegno di studi svoltosi a Verona nel 2017, cercano di offrire nuove strade di lettura per un’opera che, come dimostrano i contributi della terza sezione, in tre occasioni ha trasceso i confini dello schermo per valicare quelli del palcoscenico.

Author : Millicent Marcus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,6 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.