A history of Italian cinema
| Main Author: | Bondanella, Peter, 1943-2017. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
2009.
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 684 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects: |
| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-645) and index. Early Italian cinema: The silent era ; The coming of sound and the fascist era -- Italian neorealism: Masters of neorealism : Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti ; Exploring the boundaries of neorealism ; The break with neorealism : the cinema of the reconstruction, Fellini's trilogies of character and grace, and the return of melodrama -- The golden age of Italian cinema: The Italian "Peplum" : the sword and sandal epic ; Commedia all'italiana : comedy and social criticism ; Neorealism's legacy to a new generation, and the Italian political film ; The mateur auteurs : new dimensions in film narrative in Visconti, Antonioni, De Sica, and Fellini ; The spaghetti nightmare : horror films from the 1950s to the present ; A fistful of pasta : Sergio Leone and the spaghetti western ; Mystery, gore, and mayhem : the Italian giallo ; Myth, Marx, and Freud in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci ; The Poliziesco : Italian crime films from the 1970s to the present -- Generational change in the contemporary Italian cinema: The old guard never surrenders : Italy's prewar auteurs in the 1980s and 1990s ; The third wave : a new generation of auteurs ; Italian cinema enters the third millennium. |
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| Physical Description: |
xiv, 684 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-645) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780826417855 082641785X 9781441160690 1441160698 |