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| a new guide to italian cinema: A New Guide to Italian Cinema C. Celli, M. Cottino-Jones, 2007-01-08 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. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: The Italian Cinema Book Peter Bondanella, 2019-07-25 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: THE SILENT ERA (1895–22) THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA (1922–45) POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE (1945–59) THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA (1960–80) AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION (1981 TO THE PRESENT) NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA 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. This provocative collection will provide the film student, scholar or enthusiast with a comprehensive understanding of the major developments in what might be called twentieth-century Italy's greatest and most original art form. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: A History of Italian Cinema Peter Bondanella, 2009-10-12 A History of Italian Cinema is the only comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language > |
| a new guide to italian cinema: A New Guide to Italian Cinema Carlo Celli, Marga Cottino-Jones, 2007-01-09 A New Guide to Italian Cinema, with co-author Carlo Celli, 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 popular cinema, the films which actually achieved box office success among the Italian public. The Guide introduces the Italian cinema not just as a 20th century phenomenon but as an expression of the deeper roots of Italy's historic, cultural and literary past. Chapters offer historical timelines and commentary on political and cultural events and trends, followed by discussion of the Italian cinema industry and key films. Appendices offer guides to writing about film, statistical data of Italian box office history and short biographies and filmographies of important directors. The aim of the book is to provide the cinephile, student, teacher, or fan with a guide where points of interest may be identified and studied with clarity. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: A Companion to Italian Cinema Frank Burke, 2017-04-10 Written by leading figures in the field, A Companion to Italian Cinema re-maps Italian cinema studies, employing new perspectives on traditional issues, and fresh theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema. Offers new approaches to Italian cinema, whose importance in the post-war period was unrivalled Presents a theory based approach to historical and archival material Includes work by both established and more recent scholars, with new takes on traditional critical issues, and new theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema Covers recent issues such as feminism, stardom, queer cinema, immigration and postcolonialism, self-reflexivity and postmodernism, popular genre cinema, and digitalization A comprehensive collection of essays addressing the prominent films, directors and cinematic forms of Italian cinema, which will become a standard resource for academic and non-academic purposes alike |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Italian Neorealist Cinema Christopher Wagstaff, 2007-01-01 The end of the Second World War saw the emergence in Italy of the neorealism movement, which produced a number of films characterized by stories set among the poor and working class, often shot on location using non-professional actors. In this study Christopher Wagstaff provides an in-depth analysis of neorealist film, focusing on three films that have had a major impact on filmmakers and audiences around the world: Roberto Rossellini's Roma città aperta and Paisà and Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette. Indeed, these films are still, more than half a century after they were made, among the most highly regarded works in the history of cinema. In this insightful and carefully researched work, Wagstaff suggests that the importance of these films is largely due to the aesthetic and rhetorical qualities of their assembled sounds and images rather than, as commonly thought, their particular representations of historical reality.The author begins by situating neorealist cinema in its historical, industrial, commercial, and cultural context. He goes on to provide a theoretical discussion of realism and the merits of neorealist films, individually and collectively, as aesthetic artefacts. He follows with a detailed analysis of the three films, focusing on technical and production aspects as well as on the significance of the films as cinematic works of art.While providing a wealth of information and analysis previously unavailable to an English-speaking audience, Italian Neorealist Cinema offers a radically new perspective on neorealist cinema and the Italian art cinema that followed it. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Contemporary Italian Filmmaking Manuela Gieri, 1995-01-01 Contemporary Italian Filmmaking is an innovative critique of Italian filmmaking in the aftermath of World War II - as it moves beyond traditional categories such as genre film and auteur cinema. Manuela Gieri demonstrates that Luigi Pirandello's revolutionary concept of humour was integral to the development of a counter-tradition in Italian filmmaking that she defines `humoristic'. She delineates a `Pirandellian genealogy' in Italian cinema, literature, and culture through her examination of the works of Federico Fellini, Ettore Scola, and many directors of the `new generation, ' such as Nanni Moretti, Gabriele Salvatores, Maurizio Nichetti, and Giuseppe Tornatore. A celebrated figure of the theatrical world, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is little known beyond Italy for his critical and theoretical writings on cinema and for his screenplays. Gieri brings to her reading of Pirandello's work the critical parameters offered by psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and postmodernism to develop a syncretic and transcultural vision of the history of Italian cinema. She identifies two fundamental trends of development in this tradition: the `melodramatic imagination' and the `humoristic, ' or comic, imagination. With her focus on the humoristic imagination, Gieri describes a `Pirandellian mode' derived from his revolutionary utterances on the cinema and narrative, and specifically, from his essay on humour, L'umorismo (On Humour, 1908). She traces a history of the Pirandellian mode in cinema and investigates its characteristics, demonstrating the original nature of Italian filmmaking that is particularly indebted to Pirandello's interpretation of humour. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Fascism in Italian Cinema since 1945 G. Lichtner, 2013-05-29 From neorealism's resolve to Berlusconian revisionist melodramas, this book examines cinema's role in constructing memories of Fascist Italy. Italian cinema has both reflected and shaped popular perceptions of Fascism, reinforcing or challenging stereotypes, remembering selectively and silently forgetting the most shameful pages of Italy's history. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Terrorism, Italian Style Ruth S. Glynn, Giancarlo Lombardi, Alan O'Leary, 2012 The legacy of Italy's experience of political violence and terrorism in the anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83) continues to exercise the Italian imagination to an extraordinary degree. Cinema has played a particularly prominent role in articulating the ongoing impact of the anni di piombo and in defining the ways in which Italians remember and work through the atrocities and traumas of those years. Terrorism, Italian Style brings together some of the most important scholars contributing to the study of cinematic representations of the anni di piombo. Drawing on a comparative approach and a broad range of critical perspectives (including genre theory, family and gender issues, trauma theory and ethics), the book addresses an extensive range of films produced between the 1970s and the present and articulates their significance and relevance to contemporary Italian society and culture. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: The Cinema of Francesco Rosi Gaetana Marrone, 2020 Francesco Rosi is one of the great realist artists of post-war Italian, indeed post-war world cinema. In this book, author Gaetana Marrone explores the rich visual language in which the Neapolitan filmmaker expresses the cultural icons that constitute his style and images. Over the years, Rosi has offered us films that trace an intricate path between the real and the fictive, the factual and the imagined. His films show an extraordinarily consistent formal balance while representing historical events as social emblems that examine, shape, and reflect the national self. They rely on a labyrinthine narrative structure, in which the sense of an enigma replaces the unidirectional path leading ineluctably to a designated end and solution. Rosi's logical investigations are conducted by an omniscient eye and translated into a cinematic approach that embraces the details of material reality with the panoramic perspective of a dispassionate observer. This book offers intertextual analyses within such fields as history, politics, literature, and photography, along with production information gleaned from Rosi's personal archives and interviews. It examines Rosi's creative use of film as document, and as spectacle). It is also a study of the specific cinematic techniques that characterize Rosi's work and that visually, compositionally, express his vision of history and the elusive truth of past and present social and political realities. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: A History of Italian Cinema Irmbert Schenk, 2024-11-15 This book provides a complete description of the development of Italian film and cinema from its beginnings in 1895 until today. Special emphasis is placed on those periods in which Italian film history became aesthetically decisive for world cinematography: silent film of the 1910s, neorealism after World War II, and auteur and genre cinema around 1960. And then on the multifaceted development up to the present day, which still guarantees films from Italy a significant place in international cinema. The chapters are introduced with compact descriptions of Italy's political and social history and the institutional formation of film and cinema. This is the basis for the extensive examination of genres and films. The film analyses also include a look at the reception by the audiences. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Italian Style Eugenia Paulicelli, 2016-09-22 Since its beginning and during periods of great transformations, movie-going for both men and women was akin to going to a fashion parade. Before the explosion of digital technology and its enchanted world, access to fashion was only accessible on the big screen. Fashion and style became reachable for the masses through cinema. And, with the genre of the fashion film, this continues today. Focusing on a number of crucial films and directors from the silent era to the present, this study will offer, for the first time, an in-depth exploration of the interaction between fashion and Italian cinema. The study, however, will privilege the golden age of Italian cinema, especially the crucial decades of the 1950s and 1960s during which, through the marriage of fashion and film, Italian fashion and style were launched globally. Through the lens of fashion, the study will revisit the films of some of Italy's most important film-makers, such as Antonioni, Fellini, Visconti and others and films as old as Mario Oxilia's silent Rapsodia Satanica (1917) to Luca Guadagnino's I am Love (2009). |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema Gino Moliterno, 2020-12-08 This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on major movements, directors, actors, actresses, film genres, producers, industry organizations and key films. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema Samm Deighan, 2021-06-08 World War II irrevocably shaped culture--and much of cinema--in the 20th century, thanks to its devastating, global impact that changed the way we think about and portray war. This book focuses on European war films made about the war between 1945 and 1985 in countries that were occupied or invaded by the Nazis, such as Poland, France, Italy, the Soviet Union, and Germany itself. Many of these films were banned, censored, or sharply criticized at the time of their release for the radical ways they reframed the war and rejected the mythologizing of war experience as a heroic battle between the forces of good and evil. The particular films examined, made by arthouse directors like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Larisa Shepitko, among many more, deviate from mainstream cinematic depictions of the war and instead present viewpoints and experiences of WWII which are often controversial or transgressive. They explore the often-complicated ways that participation in war and genocide shapes national identity and the ways that we think about bodies and sexuality, trauma, violence, power, justice, and personal responsibility--themes that continue to resonate throughout culture and global politics. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Popular Italian Cinema L. Bayman, S. Rigoletto, 2013-01-17 Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning of popular cinema in Italy to give a sense of its complexity and specificity in Italian cinema, from early to contemporary cinema. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: The Italian Cinema Book Peter Bondanella, 2019-07-25 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: THE SILENT ERA (1895–22) THE BIRTH OF THE TALKIES AND THE FASCIST ERA (1922–45) POSTWAR CINEMATIC CULTURE (1945–59) THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN CINEMA (1960–80) AN AGE OF CRISIS, TRANSITION AND CONSOLIDATION (1981 TO THE PRESENT) NEW DIRECTIONS IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ITALIAN CINEMA 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. This provocative collection will provide the film student, scholar or enthusiast with a comprehensive understanding of the major developments in what might be called twentieth-century Italy's greatest and most original art form. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: A History of Italian Cinema Peter Bondanella, Federico Pacchioni, 2017-10-19 A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni reorganize the current History in order to keep the book fresh and responsive not only to the actual films being created in Italy in the twenty-first century but also to the rapidly changing priorities of Italian film studies and film scholars. The new edition brings the definitive history of the subject, from the birth of cinema to the present day, up to date with a revised filmography as well as more focused attention on the melodrama, the crime film, and the historical drama. The book is expanded to include a new generation of directors as well as to highlight themes such as gender issues, immigration, and media politics. Accessible, comprehensive, and heavily illustrated throughout, this is an essential purchase for any fan of Italian film. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: The A to Z of Italian Cinema Gino Moliterno, 2009-10-12 The A to Z of Italian Cinema provides a better understanding of the role Italian cinema has played in film history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, black-&-white photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, film credits, and terminology. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Mafia Movies Dana Renga, 2019-07-15 The mafia has always fascinated filmmakers and television producers. Al Capone, Salvatore Giuliano, Lucky Luciano, Ciro Di Marzio, Roberto Saviano, Don Vito and Michael Corleone, and Tony Soprano are some of the historical and fictional figures that contribute to the myth of the Italian and Italian-American mafias perpetuated onscreen. This collection looks at mafia movies and television over time and across cultures, from the early classics to the Godfather trilogy and contemporary Italian films and television series. The only comprehensive collection of its type, Mafia Movies treats over fifty films and TV shows created since 1906, while introducing Italian and Italian-American mafia history and culture. The second edition includes new original essays on essential films and TV shows that have emerged since the publication of the first edition, such as Boardwalk Empire and Mob Wives, as well as a new roundtable section on Italy’s “other” mafias in film and television, written as a collaborative essay by more than ten scholars. The edition also introduces a new section called “Double Takes” that elaborates on some of the most popular mafia films and TV shows (e.g. The Godfather and The Sopranos) organized around themes such as adaptation, gender and politics, urban spaces, and performance and stardom. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema Francesco Pascuzzi, Bryan Cracchiolo, 2015-01-21 This book explores the oneiric in Italian cinema from filmic representations and visualizations of dreams, nightmares, hallucinations, and dream-like and hypnotic states, to dreams as cinematic allegories and metaphors and the theoretical frameworks applied to the investigation of this relationship. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Schooling in Modernity Paola Bonifazio, 2014-05-27 Between 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight against unemployment, the transformation of rural and urban spaces, and the re-establishment of democratic regimes in Italy and throughout Europe. In Schooling in Modernity, Paola Bonifazio investigates the ways in which these sponsored films promoted a particular vision of modernization and industry and functioned as tools to govern the Italian people. The author uses extensive archival research and various theoretical approaches to examine the politics of sponsored filmmaking in postwar Italy. Among the many topics explored are target audiences and audience response, sources of funding, censorship, debates on cinematic realism, and the connections and differences between American and Italian strategies and styles of documentary filmmaking. Insightful and richly detailed, Schooling in Modernity shows the importance of these under-appreciated films in the postwar modernization process, the transition from Fascism to democracy, and Italy’s involvement in the Cold War. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: A Student's Guide to Italian Film Marga Cottino-Jones, 1993 |
| a new guide to italian cinema: The Maciste Films of Italian Silent Cinema Jacqueline Reich, 2015-10-19 Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's Maciste played a key role in his nation's narratives of identity during World War I and after. Jacqueline Reich traces the racial, class, and national transformations undergone by this Italian strongman from African slave in Cabiria (1914), his first film, to bourgeois gentleman, to Alpine soldier of the Great War, to colonial officer in Italy's African adventures. Reich reveals Maciste as a figure who both reflected classical ideals of masculine beauty and virility (later taken up by Mussolini and used for political purposes) and embodied the model Italian citizen. The 12 films at the center of the book, recently restored and newly accessible to a wider public, together with relevant extra-cinematic materials, provide a rich resource for understanding the spread of discourses on masculinity, and national and racial identities during a turbulent period in Italian history. The volume includes an illustrated appendix documenting the restoration and preservation of these cinematic treasures. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema M. Cottino-Jones, 2010-02-15 Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema offers, for the first time in Italian Cinema criticism, a contextual study of the representation of women in twentieth-century Italian films. Marga Cottino-Jones argues that the ways women are depicted on screen reflects a subconscious sexual conservatism typical of an Italian society rooted within a patriarchal ideology. The book then follows the slow but constant process of social awareness in the Italian society through women in film, especially after the 1950s. Comprehensive in scope, this book analyzes the films of internationally known male and female directors, such as Antonioni, Fellini, Rossellini, Visconti, Bertolucci, Benigni, Cavani, Wertmuller, Comencini, and Archibugi. Special consideration is given to the actresses and actors that have become the icons of Italian femininity and masculinity, such as Sofia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Gian Carlo Giannini, Marcello Mastroianni, and Alberto Sordi. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Italian Film Marcia Landy, 2000-04-13 Examines the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Italian Cinema Peter Bondanella, 1990 |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Italian Horror Cinema Baschiera Stefano Baschiera, 2016-06-14 In its heyday from the late 1950s until the early 1980s Italian horror cinema was characterised by an excess of gore, violence and often incoherent plot-lines. Films about zombies, cannibals and psychopathic killers ensured there was no shortage of controversy, and the genre presents a seemingly unpromising nexus of films for sustained critical analysis. But Italian horror cinema with all its variations, subgenres and filoni remains one of the most recognisable and iconic genre productions in Europe, achieving cult status worldwide. One of the manifestations of a rich production landscape in Italian popular cinema after the Second World War, Italian horror was also characterised by its imitation of foreign models and the transnational dimension of its production agreements, as well as by its international locations and stars.This collection brings together for the first time a range of contributions aimed at a new understanding of the genre, investigating the different phases in its history, the peculiarities of the production system, the work of its most representative directors (Mario Bava and Dario Argento) and the wider role it has played within popular culture. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Where Did They Film That? Italy Romina Arena, 2016-05-12 Three Coins in a Fountain. Roman Holiday. Eat, Pray, Love. In many of the greatest movies ever made, the biggest star was Italy itself. Where Did They Film That? Italy is a unique travel guide that invites the reader to explore the beauty and cultural riches of Italy through the universal language of cinema. Where Did They Film That? Italy shows readers where to find the exact locations where many of the most famous movies set in Italy were filmed — plus nearby attractions, museums, restaurants, shops, and must-experience slices of Italian life. The beautiful and historic sites immortalized in great films are the reader’s keys to experiencing the best in Italian travel, art, dining, and living. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: The Negro Motorist Green Book Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Equivocal Subjects Shelleen Greene, 2012-03-01 Equivocal Subjects puts forth an innovative reading of the Italian national cinema. Shelleen Greene argues that from the silent era to the present, the cinematic representation of the mixed-race or interracial subject has served as a means by which Italian racial and national identity have been negotiated and re-defined. She examines Italy's colonial legacy, histories of immigration and emigration, and contemporary politics of multiculturalism through its cultural production, providing new insights into its traditional film canon. Analysing the depiction of African Italian mixed-race subjects from the historical epics of the Italian silent golden era to the contemporary period, this enlightening book engages the history of Italian nationalism and colonialism through theories of subject formation, ideologies of race, and postcolonial theory. Greene's approach also provides a novel interpretation of recent developments surrounding Italy's status as a major passage for immigrants seeking to enter the European Union. This book provides an original theoretical approach to the Italian cinema that speaks to the nation's current political and social climate. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy Mark Gilbert, Sara Lamberti Moneta, 2020-10 Historical Dictionary of Modern Italy, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema Luca Barattoni, 2013-12-16 This book brings to the surface the lines of experimentation and artistic renewal appearing after the exhaustion of Neorealism, mapping complex areas of interest such as the emergence of ethical concerns, the relationship between ideology and representati |
| a new guide to italian cinema: André Bazin and Italian Neorealism André Bazin, Bert Cardullo, 2011-09-15 A new collection of posthumous writings by André Baz |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Paolo Sorrentino's Cinema and Television Annachiara Mariani, 2021 The Naples-born director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino has, to date, written and directed nine films, winning an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe for The Great Beauty in 2013. In 2016, he created and directed his first TV series, The Young Pope, which starred Jude Law. John Malkovich joined the cast in 2020 for the follow-up series. He has established himself as a world-leading auteur with a list of critically acclaimed and award-winning films.0This is an invaluable contribution to the existing literature on Sorrentino and is the first English language collection dedicated to this prolific director, who has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: The Rough Guide to Italy: Travel Guide eBook Rough Guides, 2025-06-01 Ideal for independent travellers, this guidebook to Italy, written by destination experts, combines must-see sights with hidden gems and offers essential tips for both planning and on-the-ground adventures. Inside this Italy travel book, you'll find: Regional deep dive – coverage of key regions, offering a rich selection of places and experiences, and honest reviews of each one Itinerary samples – designed for various durations and interests Practical information – tips on how to get there and get around, use public transport, beat the crowds, save time and money, travel responsibly and more Expert recommendations – insider advice on where to eat, drink, and stay, alongside tips for nightlife and outdoor activities Seasonal tips – when to go to Italy, climate details, and festival highlights to plan your perfect trip Must-See pick – a curated selection of not-to-miss sights as chosen by our authors - Amalfi coast, the Uffizi in Florence, Neapolitan pizza, Vatican museums, Sicily's Greek ruins, hiking in the Dolomites, Basilica di San Francesco, Baroque architecture in Lecce, Lake Como, frescoes in Padua, agiturismi Navigational maps – colour-coded maps highlighting essential spots for dining, accommodation, shopping and entertainment Cultural insights – engaging stories delve into the local culture, history, arts and more, enriching your understanding of Italy Language essentials – a handy Italian dictionary and glossary to help you communicate and connect with locals Inspiring travel photography – full-colour pictures capture the essence of Italy, bringing each location to life and fuelling your wanderlust Coverage includes: Rome, Tuscany, Venice, Lombardy, Liguria, Umbria, Puglia, Sicily, Sardinia, the Lakes, Calabria, Piemonte |
| a new guide to italian cinema: James Bond and Popular Culture Michele Brittany, 2014-11-19 The most recognizable fictional spy and one of the longest running film franchises, James Bond has inspired a host of other pop culture contributions, including Doctor Who (the Jon Pertwee era), the animated television comedy series Archer, Matt Kindt's comic book series Mind MGMT, Japan's Nakano Spy School Films, the 1960s Italian Eurospy genre, and the recent 007 Legends video game. This collection of new essays analyzes Bond's phenomenal literary and filmic influence over the past 50-plus years. The 14 essays are categorized into five parts: film, television, literature, lifestyle (emphasis on fashion and home decor), and the Bond persona reinterpreted. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: The Heist Film Daryl Lee, 2014-03-14 A concise introduction to the genre about that one last big score, The Heist Film: Stealing With Style traces this crime thriller’s development as both a dramatic and comic vehicle growing out of film noir (Criss Cross, The Killers, The Asphalt Jungle), mutating into sleek capers in the 1960s (Ocean’s Eleven, Gambit, How to Steal a Million) and splashing across screens in the 2000s in remake after remake (The Thomas Crown Affair, The Italian Job, The Good Thief). Built around a series of case studies (Rififi, Bob le Flambeur, The Killing, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Getaway, the Ocean’s trilogy), this volume explores why directors of such varied backgrounds, from studio regulars (Siodmak, Crichton, Siegel, Walsh and Wise) to independents (Anderson, Fuller, Kubrick, Ritchie and Soderbergh), are so drawn to this popular genre. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: The Films of Roberto Rossellini Peter Bondanella, 1993-01-29 A close analysis of the seven films that mark important turning points in Rossellini's evolution: The Man with a Cross (1943), Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Machine to Kill Bad People (1948-52), Voyage in Italy (1953), to General della Rovere(1959), and The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (1966). |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Spaghetti Westerns Aliza S. Wong, 2019 Since the silent days of cinema, Westerns have been one of the most popular genres, not just in the United States but around the world. International filmmakers have been so taken by westerns that many directors have produced versions of their own, despite lacking access to the American West. Nowhere has the Western been more embraced outside of the United States than Italy. In the 1960s, as Hollywood heroes like John Wayne and Randolph Scott were aging, Italian filmmakers were revitalizing the western, securing younger American actors for their productions and also making stars of homegrown talent. Movies directed and produced by Italians have been branded spaghetti westerns--a genre that boasts several hundred films. In Spaghetti Westerns: A Viewer's Guide, Aliza S. Wong identifies the most significant westerns all'italiana produced as well as the individuals who significantly contributed to the genre. The author profiles such American actors as Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef; composers including Ennio Morricone and Carlo Rustichelli; and, of course, directors like Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Leone. The most memorable movies of the genre are also examined, including Compa eros, Django; A Fistful of Dollars; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; and They Call Me Trinity. In addition to citing pivotal films and filmmakers, this volume also highlights other relevant aspects of the genre, including popular shooting locations, subgenres like the Zapata western, and the films and filmmakers who were inspired by the spaghetti western, including Quentin Tarantino, Richard Rodriguez, and Takashi Miike. An introduction to a unique homage of American cinema, Spaghetti Westerns: A Viewer's Guide allows fans and scholars alike to learn more about a genre that continues to fascinate audiences. |
| a new guide to italian cinema: Signing Italian/American Cinema Anthony Julian Tamburri, 2021-07-16 The essays in this book all share a common notion that a greater awareness of the potentiality of signification of sign functions is an indispensable tool for a more extensive understanding of how a film might signify-indeed, about how any text might signify. That said, I should state here at the outset that my use of the binomial extensive understanding is by no means evaluative; my only intention is to underscore that through semiotics and its various components of interpretation we can testify to the greater potentiality of signification that any text-e.g., cinematic, written, figurative-may produce with respect to a more conventional analytical process that, as well, does not take into consideration secondary or tertiary functions of the signs in question. -- from the Introduction In Signing Italian/American Cinema: A More Focused Look Anthony Tamburri means it. His new work employs the concentration of a neurosurgeon with the precision of a guided missile as he dissects, shatters and reexamines such films as the well-known and well-loved Big Night and not as well- known but equally beguiling Dinner Rush. Culture matters and his explanations of these films plus the classic Nuovomondo and the iconic Mean Streets makes you want to screen them a second and a third time. -- Richard Vetere, Playwright and film writer. Anthony Julian Tamburri's collection of essays about Italian American cinema will change the way you look at movies. Whether you study the form, teach cinema or watch for enjoyment, there is a rich garden of ideas in these essays that will challenge and delight you. Dr. Tamburri is one of the leading Italian American voices of our times. You will savor this collection. It's an intellectual Moviola by a man who knows movies. -- Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author The Shoemaker's Wife . Anthony Julian Tamburri is Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures. Concentrating on cinema, literature, and semiotics, he has authored 14 books in both English and Italian. His books on Italian/American cinema include, Italian/American Short Films & Music Videos: A Semiotic Reading (Purdue, 2002) and Re-viewing Italian Americana: Generalities and Specificities on Cinema (Bordighera, 2011). |
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This volume introduces the Italian cinema not just as a twentieth-century phenomenon but as an expression of the deeper roots of Italy’s historic, cultural, and literary past.
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numerous books on Italian cinema, including La Comédie italienne ; L’Italie de Mussolini et son cinéma ; Parigi- Roma: 50 anni di coproduzioni italo-francesi ; Le Cinéma
The Italian Cinema from Its Beginnings to Today
THE ITALIAN CINEMA and remained present during the lean years after World War I, until today, when Italian motion pictures have a certain fascina-tion for foreign critics, they appear more …
History of Italian Cinema 560:345 Fall 2008
A New Guide to Italian Cinema. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. ISBN # 1403975655. Handouts and additional material are posted on sakai: https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal …
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New Trends in Italian Cinema: “New” Neorealism Antonio Rossini and Carmela Bernardetta Scala..... 1 Sodom and Gomorrah: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò and Matteo Garrone’s Gomorra …
Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present, 2001, 546 …
Gian Piero Brunetta, Professor of History and Film Criticism, University of Padua, Italy This new edition of the bestselling Italian Cinema examines films made from 1989 to the present as well …
History of Italian Cinema and Society - isiflorence.org
It focuses on the most important periods and genres in the history of Italian cinema, such as Neorealism and the commedia all’italiana; the work of directors such as Rossellini, De Sica, …
The History of Italian Cinema: a Guide to Italian Film from its …
This new history of Italian cinema is in fact a translation of Gian Piero Brunetta’s 2003 volume Guida alla storia del cinema italiano 1905–2003 [Guide to the History of Italian Cinema 1905 …
ITALIAN CINEMA REFRAMED: REVISITING PAST & PRESENT
Are you curious about the contemporary indie directors leading the Renaissance of Italian cinema? This course, about Italian cinema’s cultural cornerstones and contemporary …
CET Syllabus of Record - CET Academic Programs
This course explores Italian cinema from its origin to the present time, within the socioeconomic and historical context of Italian culture and society. Considering cinema as the 20th Century …
INTRODUCTION - assets.press.princeton.edu
Today, Italian cinema can be studied in an entirely new way thanks to recent and effective developments in the field of cinema studies. It can be broken down and analyzed on a …
Italian Exploitation Cinema Part Two 1975-1979
The Essential Reference Guide To Trash Cinema - Issue Two . Italian Exploitation Cinema Part Two 1975-1979 . Complete cast and credits, alternate titles, reviews and video release …
Italian Cinema - api.pageplace.de
1910 and 1914 is generally acknowledged as the Golden Age of Italian Silent Cinema. The Italian film industry gained prestige as Italian films reached wide popularity both at home and abroad, …
Neorealist Cinema and Post-Neorealist Cinema - University of …
Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema isolates only those comedies, such as Dino Risi’s and Antonio Pietrangeli’s - some of which are excellently analyzed in Barattoni’s book - that display a …
Italian 2053 (221) Introduction to Italian Cinema: Sex and …
This course presents students with an overview of Italian cinema from the last seventy years and looks in detail at films by ten seminal Italian directors. We will
Film Styles: Italian Neorealism - amerigolab.com
Italian neorealism (Italian: Neorealismo) is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors.
CINEMA ITALIANO - api.pageplace.de
Each of the chapters of Cinema Italiano maps out how various Italian genres rose, prospered and played out and analyses each cycle’s most interesting, infl uential and fi nancially successful …
Italian Cinema in the “Mecca of Cinema”
In the golden age of Italian Neorealism—after WWII—Italian cinema was a strong presence in Hollywood. Today, however, contemporary Italian films in the US face a much more difficult …
GEO SYLLABUS ITALIAN CINEMA Final Syllabus - University of …
This course aims to provide a comprehensive but selective overview and analysis of the landmarks of Italian cinema from its beginnings in the Silent era to current production more …
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editions of Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present (1983, 1990, and 2001), all of which emphasized neorealism and its heritage as well as the postwar Italian art film.
Italian and Italian American Studies - Archive.org
This volume introduces the Italian cinema not just as a twentieth-century phenomenon but as an expression of the deeper roots of Italy’s historic, cultural, and literary past.
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numerous books on Italian cinema, including La Comédie italienne ; L’Italie de Mussolini et son cinéma ; Parigi- Roma: 50 anni di coproduzioni italo-francesi ; Le Cinéma
The Italian Cinema from Its Beginnings to Today
THE ITALIAN CINEMA and remained present during the lean years after World War I, until today, when Italian motion pictures have a certain fascina-tion for foreign critics, they appear more alive …
History of Italian Cinema 560:345 Fall 2008
A New Guide to Italian Cinema. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. ISBN # 1403975655. Handouts and additional material are posted on sakai: https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal Reference: …
New Trends in Italian Cinema - cambridgescholars.com
New Trends in Italian Cinema: “New” Neorealism Antonio Rossini and Carmela Bernardetta Scala..... 1 Sodom and Gomorrah: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò and Matteo Garrone’s Gomorra as a …
Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present, 2001, 546 …
Gian Piero Brunetta, Professor of History and Film Criticism, University of Padua, Italy This new edition of the bestselling Italian Cinema examines films made from 1989 to the present as well as …
History of Italian Cinema and Society - isiflorence.org
It focuses on the most important periods and genres in the history of Italian cinema, such as Neorealism and the commedia all’italiana; the work of directors such as Rossellini, De Sica, and …
The History of Italian Cinema: a Guide to Italian Film from its …
This new history of Italian cinema is in fact a translation of Gian Piero Brunetta’s 2003 volume Guida alla storia del cinema italiano 1905–2003 [Guide to the History of Italian Cinema 1905-2003].
ITALIAN CINEMA REFRAMED: REVISITING PAST & PRESENT
Are you curious about the contemporary indie directors leading the Renaissance of Italian cinema? This course, about Italian cinema’s cultural cornerstones and contemporary innovators, …
CET Syllabus of Record - CET Academic Programs
This course explores Italian cinema from its origin to the present time, within the socioeconomic and historical context of Italian culture and society. Considering cinema as the 20th Century art form …
INTRODUCTION - assets.press.princeton.edu
Today, Italian cinema can be studied in an entirely new way thanks to recent and effective developments in the field of cinema studies. It can be broken down and analyzed on a …
Italian Exploitation Cinema Part Two 1975-1979
The Essential Reference Guide To Trash Cinema - Issue Two . Italian Exploitation Cinema Part Two 1975-1979 . Complete cast and credits, alternate titles, reviews and video release information for …
Italian Cinema - api.pageplace.de
1910 and 1914 is generally acknowledged as the Golden Age of Italian Silent Cinema. The Italian film industry gained prestige as Italian films reached wide popularity both at home and abroad, …
Neorealist Cinema and Post-Neorealist Cinema - University of …
Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema isolates only those comedies, such as Dino Risi’s and Antonio Pietrangeli’s - some of which are excellently analyzed in Barattoni’s book - that display a …
Italian 2053 (221) Introduction to Italian Cinema: Sex and …
This course presents students with an overview of Italian cinema from the last seventy years and looks in detail at films by ten seminal Italian directors. We will
Film Styles: Italian Neorealism - amerigolab.com
Italian neorealism (Italian: Neorealismo) is a style of film characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors.
CINEMA ITALIANO - api.pageplace.de
Each of the chapters of Cinema Italiano maps out how various Italian genres rose, prospered and played out and analyses each cycle’s most interesting, infl uential and fi nancially successful …
Italian Cinema in the “Mecca of Cinema”
In the golden age of Italian Neorealism—after WWII—Italian cinema was a strong presence in Hollywood. Today, however, contemporary Italian films in the US face a much more difficult market.
GEO SYLLABUS ITALIAN CINEMA Final Syllabus - University …
This course aims to provide a comprehensive but selective overview and analysis of the landmarks of Italian cinema from its beginnings in the Silent era to current production more than 100 years …
A History of - api.pageplace.de
editions of Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present (1983, 1990, and 2001), all of which emphasized neorealism and its heritage as well as the postwar Italian art film.
