History of Italian Cinema

Name: History of Italian Cinema
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ISBN: 9781441160690

ISBN-10: 1441160698

ISBN-13: 9781441160690

Edition: 2009

Authors: Peter Bondanella, Bondanella

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Italian Cinema is the only complete and up-to-date book on the subjectavailable anywhere, in any language. New coverage from 1989 to the present includes the Italian horror-film genre, Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Be

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 10/12/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



Preface



The Silent Era



The Coming of Sound and the Fascist Era



The Neorealist Era: Masters of Neorealism—Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti



The Neorealist Era: Exploring the Boundaries of Neorealism



The Neorealist Era: The Break With Neorealism, the Cinema of the Reconstruction in Rossellini and Antonioni, Fellini's Trilogy of Character and Grace; and the Return of Melodrama with Visconti and De Sica



The Italian "Peplum": The Sword and Sandal Epic



The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: Commedia all'italiana—Comedy and Social Criticism



The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: Neorealism's Legacy to a New Generation and the Political Film



The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: The Mateur Auteurs—New Dimensions of Film Narrative in Visconti, Antonioni, De Sica, and Fellini



The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: The Spaghetti Nightmare—the Italian Horror Film from the 1950s to the Present



The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: A Fistful of Pasta—Sergio Leone and the Spaghetti Western



The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: Mystery, Gore, and Mayhem—the Italian Giallo XIII. The Golden Age of Italian Cinema: Myth, Marx, and Freud in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci



The Poliziesco: Italian Crime Films from the 1970s to the Present



The Old Guard Never Surrenders: Italy's Prewar Auteurs in the 1980s and 1990s



The Third Wave: A New Generation of Auteurs with Moretti, Nichetti, Trosi, Salvatores, Benigni, Tornatore, Giordana, Amelio, and Ozpetek



Italian Cinema Enters the Third Millennium


Endnotes


Bibliography


List of photo credits


Index