Popular Italian Cinema
Title | Popular Italian Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | L. Bayman |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2013-01-17 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1137305657 |
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 History of Italian Cinema
Title | A History of Italian Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Bondanella |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 753 |
Release | 2017-10-19 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1501307649 |
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 Companion to Italian Cinema
Title | A Companion to Italian Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Burke |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 825 |
Release | 2017-04-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1119006171 |
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
Title | A New Guide to Italian Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | C. Celli |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2007-01-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0230601820 |
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.
Popular Italian Cinema
Title | Popular Italian Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Flavia Brizio-Skov |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2011-10-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 085772097X |
With its monsters, vampires and cowboys, Italian popular culture in the postwar period has generally been dismissed as a form of evasion or escapism. Here, four international scholars re-examine and reinterpret the era to show that popular Italian cinema was not only in tune with contemporary political and social trends, it also presaged the turmoil and rebellion of the 1960s and 1970s. Their analysis of peplum (or 'sword and sandal') films, horror films, spaghetti westerns and comedy Italian-style shows how genre cinema reflected the changes wrought by modernization, urbanization, consumerist culture and the sexual revolution. With striking insights into the links between popular culture and politics, this book will be indispensable for specialists in film and media studies, Italian and cultural studies, as well as social history.
After Fellini
Title | After Fellini PDF eBook |
Author | Millicent Joy Marcus |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2002-06-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801868474 |
In this work, Marcus interprets a body of work that managed to transcend the decline of Italian cinema's prominence within the industry during the last two decades of the 20th-century.
The Cinema of Italy
Title | The Cinema of Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Giorgio Bertellini |
Publisher | Wallflower Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781903364987 |
Giorgio Bertellini examines the historical and aesthetic connections of some of Italy's most important films with both Italian and Western film culture.