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A history of Italian cinema
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- Summary
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This work includes sections covering the silent era, fascist cinema, horror and epic genres as well as coverage from 1989 onwards.
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- Creator
- Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Second edition
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017
- ©2017
- Physical Details
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- xii, 739 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781501307638, 1501307630, 9781501307652, 9781501307645, 9781501307645
- OCLC
- ocn962831709
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- An ancient cradle for a newborn medium: the rise of silent cinema in Italy -- Industry and ideology: the talkies during the Fascist era ; Neorealism: a revolutionary and problematic new film aesthetic ; Neorealism's many faces: widening the range of the camera's eye -- The cinema of the reconstruction and the return of melodrama -- Entertainment on an epic scale: the Italian peplum -- Commedia all'italiana: social criticism for laughter's sake -- The Italian art film: auteurism in Visconti, Antonioni, Fellini, and De Sica -- Neorealism's legacy to a new generation, and the Italian political film -- Myth, Marx, and Freud in Pier Paolo Pasolini -- The spaghetti nightmare: the heyday of Italian horror films -- A fistful of pasta: Sergio Leone and the spaghetti western -- Mystery, gore, and mayhem: the Italian Giallo -- The poliziesco: Italian crime films from the 1970s to the present -- Italy's truly popular genre: tragicomedy from the 1980s to the present -- A Fellinian ascendant: the auteur in contemporary Italian cinema -- Weaving present and past: the contemporary Italian drama