Italy in Early American Cinema Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque

Name: Italy in Early American Cinema Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque
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ISBN: 9780253221285

ISBN-10: 0253221285

ISBN-13: 9780253221285

Edition: 2009

Authors: Giorgio Bertellini

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Giorgio Bertellini traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic aesthetic-the picturesque. Once associated with landscape painting in northern Europe, the picturesque came to symbolize Mediterranean Europe through comforting views of distant landscapes and exotic characters. Showing readers how this aesthetic was transferred from 19th-century American painters to early 20th-century American filmmakers, Bertellini moves from the picturesque in silent films to theGodfathertrilogy, perhaps the definitive example of the picturesque in modern cinema.Italy in Early American Cinemaoffers readings of…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction 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


Aftetrword: "A Mirror with a Memory"


Notes


Filmography


Bibliography


Index