New Guide to Italian Cinema

Name: New Guide to Italian Cinema
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ISBN: 9781403975652

ISBN-10: 1403975655

ISBN-13: 9781403975652

Edition: 2007

Authors: Carlo Celli, Marga Cottino-Jones

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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…

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List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 6/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 234
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Carlo Celli is Assistant Professor of Italian and Film Studies at Bowling Green State University.

Carlo Celliis Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Marga Cottino-Jonestaught at the Department of Italian at UCLA from 1961 to 1998.



Preface and Acknowledgements


Remote History



Italy from Unification to World War I


The Cultural Scene


Origins of Italian Cinema


Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria and Gabriele D'Annunzio


Divismo



The Fascist Years (1922-43)


The Cultural Scene


Film in Fascist Italy


Alessandro Blasetti


Mario Camerini and White Telephone Comedies


Precursors of Neorealism



World War II


The Cultural and Literary Roots of Neorealism


Neorealism in Film


Roberto Rossellini and Open City (1945)



Reconstruction and the Late '40s


Film: The Late 1940s



The 1950s


The Development of Neorealism


The Visconti-Fellini Debate


De Sica, Television, and Popular Film in the 1950s



The Early 1960s


The Economic Boom


Itahan Cinema Boom


Commedia all'italiana (Comedy Italian Style)


The Spaghetti Western of Sergio Leone



The Later 1960s


Art Cinema


Roberto Rossellini


Luchino Visconti


Federico Fellini


Michelangelo Antonioni


Vittorio De Sica


Art Cinema Newcomers


Pier Paolo Pasolini


Bernardo Bertolucci



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



The 1980s and 1990s: A Changing Society


The "New Italian Cinema"


A Nostalgic Narrative


Benigni's La vita e bella



The Next Millennium


The Cultural Scene


Italian Cinema in the New Millennium



Short Introduction to Film Study



Box Office



The Major Directors



Italian Political Parties


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index