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Author : Julia Falkner-Tompkins
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468557432
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Download or read book A Not So Dolce Vita written by Julia Falkner-Tompkins and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wartime story of two British children in America and beyond.
Author : Shawn Levy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 039335508X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Dolce Vita Confidential written by Shawn Levy and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brisk, frothy narrative . . . informative and fun.” —The Wall Street Journal In the dizzying wake of World War II, Rome skyrocketed to prominence as an epicenter of film, fashion, photography, and boldfaced libertinism. Artists, exiles, and a dazzling array of movie talent rushed to Rome for a chance to thrive in this hotbed of excitement. From the photographers who tailed the stars to the legends who secured their place in cinematic fame, Dolce Vita Confidential resurrects the drama that permeated the streets and screens of Rome.
Author : Carla Gambescia
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 1609521994
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)
Download or read book La Dolce Vita University written by Carla Gambescia and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Dolce Vita University, 2nd Edition (LDVU2) is the perfect sampler for anyone curious about (or already in amore with) Italy and its remarkably rich cultural gifts, both past and present. This fully revised second edition includes 125 pages of new material (more than 60 new mini-essays and 40 new illustrations) to expand on the delights in the first edition. True to its lighthearted name, La Dolce Vita “U” is all about pleasurable learning, or what we prefer to call “edu-tainment.” Its dozens of entertaining yet authoritative mini-essays on a wide assortment of intriguing topics encourage random dipping at the reader’s pleasure. Even the most erudite Italophile will discover fun new facts and fascinating new insights in the pages of La Dolce Vita U. Mini-essays treat specific topics in one or more of the following subject areas: the Italian character; the visual arts (art, artists, architects); the performing arts (music, theater, cinema); history and antiquity; language and literature; cuisine and agriculture; wine and spirits; traditions and festivals; style and applied arts; unique places. In a wink and nod to the book’s “academic” identity, the 200 mini-essays are arranged alphabetically and accompanied by charming illustrations throughout. A special traveler’s topic index is provided at the end of the book.
Author : Stephen Gundle
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 9781847676559
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (765 download)
Download or read book Death and the Dolce Vita written by Stephen Gundle and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 9 April 1953 an attractive twenty-one-year-old woman went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected beach. Some said it was suicide; others, a tragic accident. But as the police tried to close the case, darker rumours bubbled to the surface. Could it be that the mysterious death of this quiet, conservative girl was linked to a drug-fuelled orgy, involving some of the richest and most powerful men in Italy?
Author : Charlotte Phillips
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1598866192
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (988 download)
Download or read book La Dolce Vita (the Sweet Life) in Cortona, Tuscany Italy written by Charlotte Phillips and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Charlotte Phillips is a world traveler, traveling as a single woman and having made the decision to move to Cortona, the heart of Tuscany, to begin a new life after her husband had left her and her mother had suddenly passed away. Contessa Carlotta learned to open the door and let life in; she not only forgave the ones who sent her on this incredible journey but learned to thank them as well. This is a book that will sweep you away into a new dimension of life, fill your own hopes and dreams, and you will come away knowing even you can have this life - "La Dolce Vita" will carry you away into your very own dreams. '"LA DOLCE VITA" is an enchanting, captivating journal. As I am unable to travel the world, Charlotte's book permitted this reader to 'see, hear, taste' all the sights and sounds of ancient Tuscany. I can close my eyes and BE THERE ' Molly Embrey
Author : John Petralia
Publisher : Chartiers Creek Press
ISBN 13 : 9780615762531
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Not in a Tuscan Villa written by John Petralia and published by Chartiers Creek Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly retired and looking for more than a vacation, John and Nancy Petralia intrepidly pack a few suitcases and head to the "perfect" Italian city for a year. Within days their dream becomes a nightmare. After residing in two Italian cities, negotiating the roads and health care, discovering art, friends, food and customs, the Petralias learn more than they anticipate -- about Italy, themselves, what it means to be American, and what's important in life.
Author : Peter Bondanella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521575737
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (757 download)
Download or read book The Films of Federico Fellini written by Peter Bondanella and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the cinematic vision of the renowned Italian filmmaker.
Author : Jean-Pierre Dufreigne
Publisher : Editions Assouline
ISBN 13 : 9782843237317
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Dolce Vita Style written by Jean-Pierre Dufreigne and published by Editions Assouline. This book was released on 2005 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fantastic creative energy of the 1960s took off with a burst of black and white: La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini. An instant cult film, it became a great classic of modernity and continues to affect generation after generation, legendary yet always contemporary. Dolce Vita Style draws on the history that inspired the film in the theatrical Rome of the 50's and sums up the innumerable influences that this cult film has had on so many of those in the worlds of movies, popular music, society, life, and fashion. Image by image, this book retraces the astonishing itinerary of a work that is a supreme emblem and a source of inexhaustible style.
Author : Alessia Ricciardi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080478258X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book After La Dolce Vita written by Alessia Ricciardi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation's literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the prominence handed it after the end of World War II and the defeat of Fascism. What emerged instead was a uniquely Italian brand of cultural capital that deliberately avoided any critical questioning of the prevailing order. Ricciardi criticizes the development of this new hegemonic arrangement in film, literature, philosophy, and art criticism. She focuses on several turning points: Fellini's futile, late-career critique of Berlusconi-style commercial television, Calvino's late turn to reactionary belletrism, Vattimo's nihilist and conservative responses to French poststructuralism, and Bonito Oliva's movement of art commodification, Transavanguardia.
Author : Mickey Knox
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 : 9781560255758
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (557 download)
Download or read book The Good, the Bad and the Dolce Vita written by Mickey Knox and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and raised in Brooklyn with a street fighter's instinct and sharp Jewish wit, Mickey Knox leaves the army for the bright lights of Hollywood. But when the rise of McCarthyism puts an abrupt end to his hopes of working in American films, Knox debarks to France and Italy to work in European cinema. It turns out to be the best move of his life. This book—where every major film actor and writer of the last century appears—is a wonderful, gossipy history of European cinema as seen through the observant eye of Knox. From arguing with John Wayne, teaching Anna Magnani to articulate English, to fending off Zsa Zsa Gabor's advances and getting lost in Italy with a hungry Orson Welles, Knox was in the midst of it all, watching with a dry smile and a witty comeback. Of the colorful cast of characters who have passed through his life—Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Anthony Quinn, Henry Fonda, Burt Reynolds, Sam Fuller, Elvis Presley, Gore Vidal—one lasting friendship runs throughout the text. That friend—Norman Mailer—writes a preface to "a rare warrior of that rarely heroic world of stage and screen." Black-and-white photographs are included.
Author : Maria Pasquale
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 1922417319
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)
Download or read book How to Be Italian written by Maria Pasquale and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be Italian? Is it pausing to enjoy an aperitivo or gelato? A passeggiata down a laneway steeped in history? An August spent tanning at the beach? This book is a celebration of the Italian lifestyle – an education in drinking to savour the moment, travelling indulgently, and cherishing food and culture. A lesson in the dolce far niente: the sweetness of doing nothing. We may not all live in the bel paese, but anyone can learn from the rich tapestry of life on the boot. From the innovation of Italian fashion and design, the Golden Age of its cinema to the Roman Empire’s cultural echoes (and some very good espresso), take a dip into the Italian psyche and learn to eat, love, dress, think, and have fun as only the Italians can.
Author : Frank Burke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119431530
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Federico Fellini written by Frank Burke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking academic treatment of Fellini, provides new, expansive, and diverse perspectives on his films and influence The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and contextualizing the director’s films in the 21st century. A milestone in Fellini scholarship, this volume provides contributions by leading scholars, intellectuals, and filmmakers, as well as insights from collaborators and associates of the Italian director. Scholarly yet readable essays explore the fundamental aspects of Fellini’s works while addressing their contemporary relevance in contexts ranging from politics and the environment to gender, race, and sexual orientation. As the centennial of Federico Fellini’s birth in approaches in 2020, this timely work provides new readings of Fellini’s films and illustrates Fellini’s importance as a filmmaker, artist,and major cultural figure. The text explores topics such as Fellini’s early cinematic experience, recurring themes and patterns in his films, his collaborations and influences, and his unique forms of cinematic expression. In a series of “Short Takes” sections, contributors look at specific films that have particular significance or personal relevance. Destined to become the standard research tool for Fellini studies, this volume: Offers new theoretical frameworks, encounters, critiques, and interpretations of Fellini’s work Discusses Fellini’s creativity outside of filmmaking, such as his graphic art and his Book of Dreams published after his death. Examines Fellini’s influence on artists not only in the English-speaking world but in places such as Turkey, Japan, South Asia, Russia, Cuba, North Africa. Demonstrates the interrelationship between Fellini’s work and visual art, literature, fashion, marketing, and many other dimensions of both popular and high culture. Features personal testimonies from family, friends and associates of Fellini such as Francesca Fabbri Fellini, Gianfranco Angelucci, Valeria Ciangottini, and Lina Wertmüller Includes an extensive appendix of freely accessible archival resources on Fellini’s work The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini is an indispensable resource for students, instructors, and scholars of Fellini, Italian cinema, cinema and art history, and all areas of film and media studies.
Author : Roy Domenico
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813234336
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Devil and the Dolce Vita written by Roy Domenico and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy’s economic expansion after World War Two triggered significant social and cultural change. Secularization accompanied this development and triggered alarm bells across the nation’s immense Catholic community. The Devil and the Dolce Vita is the story of that community – the church of Popes Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI, the lay Catholic Action association, and the Christian Democratic Party – and their efforts in a series of culture wars to preserve a traditional way of life and to engage and tame the challenges of a rapidly modernizing society. Roy Domenico begins this study during the heady days of the April 1948 Christian Democratic electoral triumph and ends when pro-divorce forces dealt the Catholics a defeat in the referendum of May 1974 where their hopes crashed and probably ended. Between those two dates Catholics engaged secularists in a number of battles – many over film and television censorship, encountering such figures as Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Venice Film Festival became a locus in the fight as did places like Pozzonovo, near Padua, where the Catholics directed their energies against a Communist youth organization; and Prato in Tuscany where the bishop led a fight to preserve church weddings. Concern with proper decorum led to more skirmishes on beaches and at resorts over modest attire and beauty pageants. By the 1960s and 1970s other issues, such as feminism, a new frankness about sexual relations, and the youth rebellion emerged to contribute to a perfect storm that led to the divorce referendum and widespread despair in the Catholic camp.
Author : Raeleen D Agostino Mautner
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402252196
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Living La Dolce Vita written by Raeleen D Agostino Mautner and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rejuvenate your life with these zesty Italian principles. America's yearning for living life with passion and serenity is answered in simple, concrete steps and examples of how to adopt the Mediterranean dolce vita, or "sweet life." Living La Dolce Vita will help you channel "the sweet life" through: --The power of family --The art of friendship --The unabashed joy of romance --Meals that nourish both body and soul
Author : Luigi Barzini
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684825007
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Italians written by Luigi Barzini and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-07-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the character and history of the Italian people.
Author : Kay Shanee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781794061521
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Love Unconventional written by Kay Shanee and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coco Sinclair is unlucky when it comes to love. After her most recent relationship ended in disaster, Coco decides that she's going to take a break from the dating scene and focus on herself and her career. After several months of doing exactly that, Coco lets her friends talk her into a night out that she won't soon forget.Young entrepreneur, Malcolm Alexander, is all about taking care of business. Focused on making sure that his new club is a success, he doesn't have time for much else, including a relationship.When the two them literally collide, sparks fly and neither of them can ignore it. Will Coco allow Malcolm to give her what she's been missing, or will she let their differences stand in the way of happiness?
Author : Stefano Benni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Margherita Dolce Vita. Ediz. Inglese written by Stefano Benni and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stirring picture of the powerful social forces of conformity and consumerism. The crushing weight of black glass and concrete development, TV, aircon and glossy magazine living meets the age-old Italian qualities of eccentricity, good food, tolerance and a love of the countryside and nature. All told through the endearing persona of an overweight high school girl with a defective heart and a love for writing charmingly bad poetry.
