A history of Italian cinema
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Continuum International Pub. Group,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | 2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xiv, 684 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781441160690 (pbk.) 1441160698 (pbk.) |
Index Number: | J909 |
CLC: | J909.546 |
Call Number: | J909.546/B711 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 593-645) and index. Early Italian cinema: The silent era ; The coming of sound and the fascist era -- Italian neorealism: Masters of neorealism : Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti ; Exploring the boundaries of neorealism ; The break with neorealism : the cinema of the reconstruction, Fellini's trilogies of character and grace, and the return of melodrama -- The golden age of Italian cinema: The Italian "Peplum" : the sword and sandal epic ; Commedia all'italiana : comedy and social criticism ; Neorealism's legacy to a new generation, and the Italian political film ; The mateur auteurs : new dimensions in film narrative in Visconti, Antonioni, De Sica, and Fellini. |