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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827610503321

Autore

Luzzi Joseph

Titolo

A cinema of poetry : aesthetics of the Italian art film / / by Joseph Luzzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4214-1296-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Disciplina

791.430945

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Italy - Aesthetics

Motion pictures - Italy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Neorealist rhetoric and national identity -- The chorus of neorealism -- Beyond beauty: cinematic allegory and the question of Italy -- Part 2. Cinemas of poetry -- Rossellini's cinema of poetry: voyage to Italy -- Poesis in Pasolini: theory and practice -- Part 3. Aesthetic corsi and ricorsi -- Threat of the real: fact and image in Antonioni -- Chiasmus, Italian style: rhetoric and ideology in the leopard and the conformist -- Verbal montage and visual apostrophe: Zanzotto's "Filo" and Fellini's Voice of the moon -- Epilogue: Art film redux: cine-poetics in the new millennium.