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Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema

Author : M. Cottino-Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230105483
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema written by M. Cottino-Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema offers, for the first time in Italian Cinema criticism, a contextual study of the representation of women in twentieth-century Italian films. Marga Cottino-Jones argues that the ways women are depicted on screen reflects a subconscious "sexual conservatism" typical of an Italian society rooted within a patriarchal ideology. The book then follows the slow but constant process of social awareness in the Italian society through women in film, especially after the 1950s. Comprehensive in scope, this book analyzes the films of internationally known male and female directors, such as Antonioni, Fellini, Rossellini, Visconti, Bertolucci, Benigni, Cavani, Wertmuller, Comencini, and Archibugi. Special consideration is given to the actresses and actors that have become the icons of Italian femininity and masculinity, such as Sofia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Gian Carlo Giannini, Marcello Mastroianni, and Alberto Sordi.

Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image

Author : Joseph Luzzi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144114756X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image by : Joseph Luzzi

Download or read book Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image written by Joseph Luzzi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive guide, some of the world's leading scholars consider the issues, films, and filmmakers that have given Italian cinema its enduring appeal. Readers will explore the work of such directors as Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Roberto Rossellini as well as a host of subjects including the Italian silent screen, the political influence of Fascism on the movies, lesser known genres such as the giallo (horror film) and Spaghetti Western, and the role of women in the Italian film industry. Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the Digital Image explores recent developments in cinema studies such as digital performance, the role of media and the Internet, neuroscience in film criticism, and the increased role that immigrants are playing in the nation's cinema.

Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema

Author : Gino Moliterno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153811948X
Total Pages : 751 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema by : Gino Moliterno

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema written by Gino Moliterno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian cinema is now regarded as one of the great cinemas of the world. Historically, however, its fortunes have varied. Following a brief moment of glory in the early silent era, Italian cinema appeared to descend almost into irrelevance in the early1920s. A strong revival of the industry which gathered pace during the 1930s was abruptly truncated by the advent of World War II. The end of the war, however, initiated a renewal as films such as Roma città aperta (Rome Open City), Sciuscià (Shoeshine, 1946), and Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1948), flagbearers of what soon came to be known as Neorealism, attracted unprecedented international acclaim and a reputation that only continued to grow in the following years as Italian films were feted worldwide. Ironically, they were celebrated nowhere more than in the United States, where Italian films consistently garnered the lion's share of the Oscars, with Lina Wertmüller becoming the first woman to ever be nominated for the Best Director award. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on major movements, directors, actors, actresses, film genres, producers, industry organizations and key films. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Italian Cinema.

Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama

Author : Louis Bayman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474402879
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama written by Louis Bayman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form.

Fascism in Italian Cinema since 1945

Author : G. Lichtner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137316624
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Fascism in Italian Cinema since 1945 written by G. Lichtner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From neorealism's resolve to Berlusconian revisionist melodramas, this book examines cinema's role in constructing memories of Fascist Italy. Italian cinema has both reflected and shaped popular perceptions of Fascism, reinforcing or challenging stereotypes, remembering selectively and silently forgetting the most shameful pages of Italy's history.

Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen

Author : Maristella Cantini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113733651X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen by : Maristella Cantini

Download or read book Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen written by Maristella Cantini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring essays by top scholars and interviews with acclaimed directors, this book examines Italian women's authorship in film and their visions of reality. The contributors use feminist film criticism in the analysis of their works and give direct voices to the artists who are constantly excluded by the conventional Italian film criticism.

Italian Jews from Emancipation to the Racial Laws

Author : C. Bettin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230114377
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Italian Jews from Emancipation to the Racial Laws by : C. Bettin

Download or read book Italian Jews from Emancipation to the Racial Laws written by C. Bettin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emancipation signalled the beginning of Jewish integration in Italy, a process that continued until 1938 when the Racial Laws were put into effect. In this book, Bettin examines the debate between integration and assimilation in the early twentieth century and Jewish culture to trace the 'rebirth of Judaism' that characterized the period.

Italian Motherhood on Screen

Author : Giovanna Faleschini Lerner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331956675X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Italian Motherhood on Screen written by Giovanna Faleschini Lerner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first scholarly analysis that considers the specificity of situated experiences of the maternal from a variety of theoretical perspectives. From “Fertility Day” to “Family Day,” the concept of motherhood has been at the center of the public debate in contemporary Italy, partly in response to the perceived crisis of the family, the economic crisis, and the crisis of national identity, provoked by the forces of globalization and migration, secularization, and the instability of labor markets. Through essays by an international cohort of established and emerging scholars, this volume aims to read these shifts in cinematic terms. How does Italian cinema represent, negotiate, and elaborate changing definitions of motherhood in narrative, formal, and stylistic terms? The essays in this volume focus on the figures of working mothers, women who opt for a child-free adulthood, single mothers, ambivalent mothers, lost mothers, or imperfect mothers, who populate contemporary screen narratives.

Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film

Author : Enrica Maria Ferrara
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030393674
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film written by Enrica Maria Ferrara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals, inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and a new epistemological and ethical approach to reality is needed. Through twelve thought-provoking, scholarly essays, this volume analyzes works by a range of modern and contemporary Italian authors, from Giacomo Leopardi to Elena Ferrante, who have captured the shift from anthropocentrism and postmodernism to posthumanism. Indeed, this is the first academic volume investigating narrative configurations of posthuman identity in Italian literature and film.

Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture

Author : R. Glynn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137341998
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Women, Terrorism, and Trauma in Italian Culture written by R. Glynn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma.

Italian Neorealist Cinema

Author : Torunn Haaland
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748664785
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Italian Neorealist Cinema written by Torunn Haaland and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the roots of neorealist film and draws parallels to neorealist fiction, by surveying the major creative contributions to and critical receptions of this trend in Italian postwar cinema.

Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema

Author : Luca Barattoni
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748650938
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema by : Luca Barattoni

Download or read book Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema written by Luca Barattoni and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings to the surface the lines of experimentation and artistic renewal appearing after the exhaustion of Neorealism, mapping complex areas of interest such as the emergence of ethical concerns, the relationship between ideology and representati

Representations of Female Identity in Italy

Author : Silvia Giovanardi Byer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443892726
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Representations of Female Identity in Italy by : Silvia Giovanardi Byer

Download or read book Representations of Female Identity in Italy written by Silvia Giovanardi Byer and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores a variety of iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. The contributors here apply various methodologies to characterize the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities, drawing from literature, film, drama, history, the humanities, media and cultural studies. Cross-genre, cross-cultural, and cross-national explorations are also utilised here in order to underline the multifaceted ways in which de facto female characterization occurred.

Neorealism and the "New" Italy

Author : Simonetta Milli Konewko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137524162
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Neorealism and the "New" Italy written by Simonetta Milli Konewko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neorealism and the "New" Italy centers on neorealist Italian artists' use of compassion as a vehicle to express their characters' interactions. Simonetta Milli Konewko proposes that compassion as an emotion may be activated to unify certain individuals and communities and investigates the mechanisms that allowed compassion to operate during the postwar period. Aiming to produce a deeper understanding of the ways in which Italy is re-encoded and reconstructed, this book explores the formation of Italian identity and redefines neorealism as a topic of investigation.

Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo

Author : Inela Selimović
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137496428
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Affective Moments in the Films of Martel, Carri, and Puenzo written by Inela Selimović and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucía Puenzo. Such tensions, Selimović argues, result in “affective moments” that relate to the films’ core arguments. They also signal these filmmakers’ novel insights on complex manifestations of memory, desire, and violence. The chapters explore how the presence of pronounced—but reticent—affect complicates emotional bonding in the everydayness depicted in these films. By bringing out moments of affect in these filmmakers’ diegetic worlds, this book traces the ways in which subtle foci on gender, class, race, and sexuality correlate in these Argentine women’s films.

Bloodstained Narratives

Author : Matthew Edwards
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496844491
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Bloodstained Narratives written by Matthew Edwards and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Donald L. Anderson, Brian Brems, Eric Brinkman, Matthew Edwards, Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, Andrew Grossman, Lisa Haegele, Gavin F. Hurley, Mikel J. Koven, Sharon Jane Mee, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Émilie von Garan, Connor John Warden, and Sean Woodard The giallo (yellow) film cycle, characterized by its bloody murders and blending of high art and cinematic sleaze, rose to prominence in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Beginning with Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) and Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), giallo films influenced the American slasher films of the 1980s and attracted an increasingly large fandom. In Bloodstained Narratives: The Giallo Film in Italy and Abroad, contributors explore understudied aspects of gialli. The chapters introduce readers to a wide range of films, including masterpieces from Argento and overlooked gems, all of them examined in close detail. Rather than understanding giallo as focalized exclusively in Italy in the 1970s, this collection explores the extension of gialli narratives abroad through different geographies and times. This book examines Italian gialli of the 1970s as well as American neo-gialli, French productions, Canadian horror films of the 1980s, and Asian rewritings of this “yellow” cycle of crime/horror films. Bloodstained Narratives also features interviews with two giallo film directors, including cult favorite Antonio Bido. Rather than fading from the cinematic stage, gialli serves as a precursor and steady accomplice to horror-thriller films through the twenty-first century.

Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film

Author : Andrea Bini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137515848
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film written by Andrea Bini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular film genre during the golden years of Italian cinema, the Comedy Italian Style emerged after the fall of the Facist regime, narrating the identity crisis of many Italian men. Exploring the birth, growth, and decline of this genre, Bini shows this notable style was the search for a new role in the shattered postwar middle class.