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The Italian cinema book / edited by Peter Bondanella London: British Film Institute ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Call No: 71(45) ITAAuthor: Bondanella, Peter Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film Institute ; Palgrave MacmillanPubDate: 2014PhysDes: xi, 380 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmSubject: ITALY ; ITALY IN FILMS ; NEOREALISM ; NATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE CINEMA ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA. ITALY ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. ITALY ; REALISM IN FILMS ; SCRIPTWRITING ; HOLOCAUST IN FILMS ; FASHION AND THE CINEMA ; GANGSTER FILMS ; WESTERNS. ITALY ; WOMEN FILMMAKERS. ITALY ; BLASETTI, ALESSANDRO ; CAMERINI, MARIO ; DE SICA, VITTORIO ; LOREN, SOPHIA ; LOLLOGRIGIDA, GINA ; MONICELLI, MARIO ; MORETTI, NANNI Summary: "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 [...] 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." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographic references and index -- "A BFI book published by Palgrave Macmillan." - title page.ISBN: 9781844574049Contents: Introduction / Peter Bondanella; PART ONE THE SILENT ERA -- Silent Italian Cinema: An International Story / Giorgio Bertellini -- The Beginnings of Film Stardom and the Print Media of Divismo / John P. Welle -- The Diva Film: Context, Actresses, Issues / Angela Dalle Vacche -- Italian Silent Film Genres: Comics, Serials, Historical Epics and Strongmen / Jacqueline Reich; PART TWO THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA -- Fascism and Italian Cinema / David Forgacs -- Italian Matinee Idols in the Era of the Talkies / Marcia Landy -- The First Comedy, Italian Style: Blasetti, Camerini and De Sica / Vito Zagarrio -- Censorship from the Fascist Period to the Present / Guido Bonsaver; PART THREE POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE – REALISM AND BEYOND -- Neorealism and Left-wing Culture / Stephen Gundle -- Cityscapes and Cinematic Space / Mark Shiel -- Dislocated Spaces for New Thought: Paths of Nomadic Wandering in Neorealist Film and Literature / Torunn Haaland -- Seeing Anew: Children in Italian Cinema, 1944 to the Present / Giovanna De Luca -- Italian Cinema from the Perspective of Female Friendship / Danielle Hipkins --The Maggiorata or Sweater Girl of the 1950s: Mangano, Lollobrigida, Loren / Pauline Small -- Hollywood and Italy: Industries and Fantasies / Robert S. C. Gordon; PART FOUR THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA -- Material Dreams: Costume and Couture Italian Style: From Hollywood on the Tiber to the Italian Screen / Reka Buckley --Italian Film Music / M. Thomas Van Order -- Production around 1960 / Christopher Wagstaff -- The Muscleman Peplum: From Le fatiche di Ercole (1958) to Hercules and the Princess of Troy (1965) / Jon Solomon -- Mondo Cane and the Invention of the Shockumentary / Gino Moliterno -- Spaghetti Westerns and Their Audience / Flavia Brizio-Skov -- Chronicles of a Hastened Modernisation: The Cynical Eye of the Commedia all'italiana / Remi Fournier Lanzoni -- The Political Film / Gaetana Marrone -- The Giallo and the Spaghetti Nightmare Film / Mikel J. Koven -- European Co-productions and Artistic Collaborations: The Italian Response to the Hollywood Studio System / Jean A. Gili -- How the Italians Happened to Cherish and Then to Disdain Their Cinema / Pierre Sorlin; PART FIVE AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION -- Scriptwriting, Italian Style: Scriptwriting for Fellini / Gianfranco Angelucci -- Modern Mob Movies: Twenty Years of Gangsters on the Italian Screen / Dana Renga -- Screening Terrorism: Cinematic Portrayals of the Italian Armed Struggle / Giancarlo Lombardi -- Italian Cinema and Holocaust Memory / Millicent Marcus -- Italian National Cinema: The Cinepanettone / Alan O'Leary -- Stars and Masculinity in Contemporary Italian Cinema / Catherine O'Rawe -- Women behind the Camera: New Horizons in Contemporary Cinema / Flavia Laviosa; PART SIX NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA -- Italian Cinema in the Post-national Age / Laura Rascaroli -- Post-colonial Theory and Italy's `Multicultural' Cinema / Aine O'Healy -- Italian Film Genres and Mario Bava / Mary P. Wood -- The Unwanted Guest: Some Remarks on Italian Cinema's Love Affair with Psychoanalysis / Fabio Vighi -- Fellini and Contemporary International Cinema / Peter Bondanella -- The Heritage of the Past and New Frontiers for the History of Italian Cinema / Gian Piero Brunetta.
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Italy in early American cinema : race, landscape, and the picturesque / Giorgio Bertellini Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
Call No: 757-054(=1.45) BERAuthor: Bertellini, Giorgio Source: USPlace: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 2010PhysDes: xiii, 443 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: HISTORY OF CINEMA. SILENT PERIOD ; ITALY IN FILMS ; SICILY IN FILMS Summary: "Once associated with landscape painting in Northern Europe, the picturesque painting style came to symbolize Mediterranean Europe through comforting views of distant landscapes and exotic characters. Showing readers how this aesthetic traveled to America and was transferred from nineteenth-century painters to early twentieth-century photographers and filmmakers, Bertellini moves from Western films and travelogues to urban melodramas featuring Southern Italians, the picturesque's original characters" - TAKEN FROM BACK COVERDonation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2012Contents: Transatlantic racial culture and modern visual reproductions -- Picturing Italy's natural and social landscapes. Picturesque mode of difference -- The picturesque Italian south as transnational commodity -- Picture-perfect America. Picturesque views and American natural landscapes -- Picturesque New York -- Black hands, white faces -- White hearts -- Performing geography -- "A mirror with a memory"
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The new Neapolitan cinema / Alex Marlow-Mann Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2011.
Call No: 71(457.2) MARAuthor: Marlow-Mann, Alex Place: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: c2011PhysDes: xiii, 242 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmSeries: Traditions in World CinemaSubject: LOCATION SHOOTING. ITALY ; ITALY IN FILMS Summary: `This superbly researched volume provides a wealth of information on the recent renaissance of filmmaking in Naples, considered in its broader cultural context. Not only does the author build a persuasive analysis of this body of films, but he also offers crucial insights into the conditions of their production.' --
Aine O'Healy, Loyola Marymount University --
Vito and the Others (1991), Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) and Libera (1993), the debuts of three young Neapolitan filmmakers, stood out dramatically from the landscape of Italian cinema in the early 1990s. On the back of their critical success, over the next decade and a half, Naples became a thriving centre for film production. --
In this first study in English, Alex Marlow-Mann provides a detailed, multi-faceted and provocative study of this distinct regional tradition. In tracing the movement's relationship with the popular musical melodramas previously produced in Naples, he reveals how contemporary filmmakers have interrogated, subverted and reconfigured cinematic convention as part of a comprehensive re-examination of Neapolitan identity. --Book Jacket.ISBN: 9780748640669Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2013Contents: Neapolitan cinema and the Italian film industry -- Characteristics and functions of the Neapolitan formula -- Estranei all massa: the new Neapolitan cinema and the crisis of Napoletanita -- Gold and dust: hybridity, postmodernism and the legacy of Neapolitan narrative -- Symbolic politics: the Neapolitan renaissance and the politics of the new Neapolitan cinema
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Political Fellini : journey to the end of Italy / by Andrea Minuz, translated by Marcus Perryman New York: Berghahn Books, c2015.
Call No: 81FEL MINAuthor: Minuz, Andrea Edition: English-language editionSource: US/UKPlace: New YorkPublisher: Berghahn BooksPubDate: c2015PhysDes: xvii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: ITALY ; ITALY IN FILMS ; FELLINI, FEDERICO ; DOLCE VITA, LA (FR/IT, Federico Fellini, 1960) ; PROVA D'ORCHESTRA (IT/GW, Federico Fellini, 1978) ; ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL (IT/GW, Federico Fellini, 1978) Summary: "Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth by examining the filmmaker's reception in Italy, and by exploring his films in the context of significant political debates. By conceiving Fetlini's cinema as an individual expression of the nation's "mythical biography," the director's most celebrated themes and images---a nostalgia for childhood, unattainable female figures, fantasy, the circus, carnivals---become symbols of Italy's traumatic modernity and perpetual adolescence." -- BACK COVER BLURBNotes: Translated from the Italian; Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-193) and indexISBN: 978182388197Contents: -- preface to the English edition -- acknowledgments -- essential chronology by Fabio Benincasa -- introduction : political Fellini? -- ch 1 Fellini and "Italian Ideology" -- ch 2 Mythical Biography of a Nation -- ch 3 La Dolce Vita and Its Relevance Today -- ch 4 Fellini, Mussolini, and the Complex of Rome -- ch 5 Fellini and Feminism -- ch 6 A Public Dream: Italy and Prova d'orchestra -- ch 7 You Don't Interrupt an Emotion -- appendix: the Divo and the maestro Fellini in the Andreotti archives -- selected bibliography -- index --
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World Film Locations: Florence / Edited by Alberto Zambenedetti Bristol, UK: Intellect,
Call No: 756 ZAMEdition: 2014Place: Bristol, UKPublisher: IntellectPhysDes: 128 p ; 22 cmSeries: World Film LocationsSubject: ITALY IN FILMS Notes: Florence, with its rich history, privileged place in the canon of Western art, and long-standing relationship with the moving image, is a cinematic city equal to Venice or Rome. World Film Locations: Florence explores the city as it is manifested in the minds of filmmakers and filmgoers. Contributors to the collection consider a wide range of topics, including the tourist’s perception of Florence, representations of art and artists on screen, the camera-friendly Tuscan countryside and mouthwatering local cuisine, and filmic adaptations of canonical Italian literature. Through scene reviews of films, including Bobby Deerfield, A Room with a View, Tea with Mussolini, and Under the Tuscan Sun, World Film Locations: Florence delves deeper into the makeup of the city, looking at both familiar and unfamiliar locations through the lens of such filmmakers as Roberto Rossellini, Mario Monicelli, Brian DePalma, and Ridley Scott.
From the Duomo to the Uffizi gallery, Florence is filled with history, art, and culture. For those who crave a passport to this Tuscan capital, World Film Locations: Florence will take you there without you ever having to leave your library. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781783203604
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