A New Guide to Italian Cinema / / by Carlo Celli, Marga Cottino-Jones

• Autore: Celli Carlo
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.430945
• Soggetto topico: Culture - Study and teaching; Motion pictures and television; Motion pictures - European influences; Motion pictures - History; Cultural and Media Studies; Film and Television Studies; European Cinema; Film History; Cultural Studies
• Persona (resp. second.): Cottino-JonesMarga
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Remote History -- 1 Italy from Unification to World War I -- The Cultural Scene -- Origins of Italian Cinema -- Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria and Gabriele D'Annunzio -- Divismo -- 2 The Fascist Years (1922-43) -- The Cultural Scene -- Film in Fascist Italy -- Alessandro Blasetti -- Mario Camerini and White Telephone Comedies -- Precursors of Neorealism -- 3 World War II -- The Cultural and Literary Roots of Neorealism -- Neorealism in Film -- Roberto Rossellini and Open City (1945) -- 4 Reconstruction and the Late '40s -- Film: The Late 1940s -- 5 The 1950s -- The Development of Neorealism -- The Visconti-Fellini Debate -- De Sica, Television, and Popular Film in the 1950s -- 6 The Early 1960s -- The Economic Boom -- Italian Cinema Boom -- Commedia all'italiana (Comedy Italian Style) -- The Spaghetti Western of Sergio Leone -- 7 The Later 1960s -- Art Cinema -- Roberto Rossellini -- Luchino Visconti -- Federico Fellini -- Michelangelo Antonioni -- Vittorio De Sica -- Art Cinema Newcomers -- Pier Paolo Pasolini -- Bernardo Bertolucci -- 8 The 1970s -- Film and Television in the 1970s and 1980s -- Comedies and Popular Cinema in the 1970s -- Political Film/Instant Movie -- The Poliziesco Crime Genre -- The Heirs to Italian Art Cinema -- 9 The 1980s and 1990s: A Changing Society -- The "New Italian Cinema -- A Nostalgic Narrative -- Benigni's La vita è bella -- 10 The Next Millennium -- The Cultural Scene -- Italian Cinema in the New Millennium -- Appendix 1: Short Introduction to Film Study -- Appendix 2: Box Office -- Appendix 3: The Major Directors -- Appendix 4: Italian Political Parties -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993) . This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and directors but is also attentive to the popular films which achieved box office success among the public.
• Titolo autorizzato: A New Guide to Italian Cinema
• ISBN: 1-281-36132-1; 9786611361327; 0-230-60182-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825781403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Italian and Italian American Studies