Peter Bondanella, Federico Pacchioni

A History of Italian Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni reorganize the current History in order to keep the book fresh and responsive not only to the actual films being created in Italy in the twenty-first century but also to the rapidly changing priorities of Italian film studies and film scholars.

The new edition brings the definitive history of the subject, from the birth of cinema to the present day, up to date with a revised filmography as well as more focused attention on the melodrama, the crime film, and the historical drama. The book is expanded to include a new generation of directors as well as to highlight themes such as gender issues, immigration, and media politics. Accessible, comprehensive, and heavily illustrated throughout, this is an essential purchase for any fan of Italian film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501307645
• Artikelnr.: 49274567

Autorenporträt

Peter Bondanella was the author of a number of groundbreaking books such as: Hollywood Italians, The Cinema of Federico Fellini, and The Films of Roberto Rossellini. In 2009, he was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and the Arts for his contributions to the history of the Italian cinema and his translations or editions of Italian literary classics (Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Vasari, Cellini). He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Film Studies and Italian at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgement 1. An Ancient Cradle for a Newborn Medium: The Rise
of Silent Cinema in Italy 2. Industry and Ideology: The Talkies during the
Fascist Era 3. Neorealism: A Revolutionary and Problematic ?New Film
Aesthetic 4. Neorealism's Many Faces: Widening the Range of the Camera's
Eye 5. The Cinema of the Reconstruction and the Return of Melodrama 6.
Entertainment on an Epic Scale: The Italian Peplum 7. Commedia all'italiana
: Social Criticism for Laughter's Sake 8. The Italian Art Film: Auteurism
in Visconti, Antonioni, Fellini, and De Sica 9. Neorealism's Legacy to a
New Generation, and the Italian Political film 10. Myth, Marx, and Freud in
Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci 11. The Spaghetti Nightmare:
The Heyday of Italian Horror Films 12. A Fistful of Pasta: Sergio Leone and
the Spaghetti Western 13. Mystery, Gore, and Mayhem: The Italian Giallo
14. The Poliziesco: Italian Crime Films from the 1970s to the Present 15.
Italy's Truly Popular Genre: Tragicomedy from the 1980s to the Present 16.
A Fellinian Ascendant: The Auteur in Contemporary Italian Cinema 17.
Weaving Present and Past: The Contemporary Italian Drama Notes
Bibliography List of photo credits Index