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Political Fellini
Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth by examining the filmmaker’s reception in Italy, and by exploring his films in the context of significant political debates. By conceiving Fellini’s cinema as an individual expression of the nation’s “mythical biography,” the director’s most celebrated themes and images — a nostalgia for childhood, unattainable female figures, fantasy, the circus, carnival — become symbols of Italy’s traumatic modernity and perpetual adolescence.
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg non è soltanto uno dei più noti registi del cinema contemporaneo ma un personaggio pubblico, un fenomeno culturale, un’icona del nostro tempo. Nessun altro filmmaker ha avuto un ruolo altrettanto decisivo nel ridefinire il modo di produzione, l’assetto e le strategie di Hollywood, fissando alcune delle regole che sono alla base dell’entertainment contemporaneo. Se il giudizio critico sulla sua opera è stato a lungo condizionato dagli incassi stratosferici dei suoi film, Spielberg incarna oggi la memoria, l’immaginario e la grandezza del cinema e della cultura americani. Da Lo squalo a Munich , da E.T. a Schindler’s List, da Minority Report a Ready Player One, passando per le saghe di Indiana Jones e Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg ha esplorato generi, forme e mitologie del cinema nella sua dimensione più fantastica, epica e popolare.
Fellini, Roma
ROMA non è un "omaggio affettuoso" alla città, un album di ricordi o una cartolina nostalgica, ma il film di Fellini che più di altri ci trascina in una Roma apocalittica, caotica, da fine del mondo: l'ingorgo sul Grande Raccordo Anulare, le rovine negli scavi della metropolitana, il défilé di moda ecclesiastica, la scorribanda notturna dei motociclisti, sono scene che fanno ormai parte dell'immaginario della città e che all'alba degli anni Settanta intercettano, nella chiave dell'invenzione felliniana, la sua progressiva trasformazione in un magma metropolitano sempre più ingestibile. Attraverso una vasta documentazione e lo studio di materiali d'archivio, il volume analizza il film alla luce dei discorsi sul mito e il disfacimento di Roma che da sempre attraversano il carattere nazionale e l'identità italiana.
“A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of 'Gladiator'
This volume adds to previous historical and political studies about 'Gladiator' with essays about the movie’s relation to pop culture and contemporary discourses. It not only relates 'Gladiator' to traditional cinema aspects such as heroism, music, acting, studio culture, and visual effects, but it also connects the film to sports, religion, and the environment, expanding the ways in which the film can be evaluated by modern audiences. The volume can be read by individuals or in classroom settings, especially as a recommended text for students studying the ancient world in film.
A Critical Companion to David Fincher
The thirteen chapters in this collection analyze David Fincher’s development as a filmmaker, from television commercials and music videos to serving as front runner on the series Mindhunter. The contributors explore a variety of characteristics, including Fincher’s attitudes toward his audiences, his attention to detail, his Gothic sense of evil, his modernization of film noir, and his reinvention of the serial killer. The diversity of approaches highlights the paradoxes of Fincher’s films and style, accentuating the tensions between his innovative methods and storytelling and unpacking the perennial questions of love, life, and death that his films raise. Scholars of film, television, and media will find this book especially salient.
From Sensation to Synaesthesia in Film and New Media
This collection of essays focuses on current theories of sensation and synaesthesia in films and audiovisual works from a variety of methodological perspectives. It offers an insightful exploration of recent film theories about the cinematic experience. Film spectatorship and its extension in new media as a similar form of audience enjoyment stimulates both our senses and mind by creating immersive environments that involve different levels of emotion and consciousness. The collection addresses these topics through its five sections. The first, “Perception,” focuses on the synaesthetic mechanism underpinning film perception and its connection with affect, cognition, and emotions. The sec...
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A Companion to Italian Cinema
Written by leading figures in the field, A Companion to Italian Cinema re-maps Italian cinema studies, employing new perspectives on traditional issues, and fresh theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema. Offers new approaches to Italian cinema, whose importance in the post-war period was unrivalled Presents a theory based approach to historical and archival material Includes work by both established and more recent scholars, with new takes on traditional critical issues, and new theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema Covers recent issues such as feminism, stardom, queer cinema, immigration and postcolonialism, self-reflexivity and postmodernism, popular genre cinema, and digitalization A comprehensive collection of essays addressing the prominent films, directors and cinematic forms of Italian cinema, which will become a standard resource for academic and non-academic purposes alike
Viaggio al termine dell'Italia
Se Federico Fellini è uno dei più grandi autori della storia del cinema, egli rientra anche nel solco di una tradizione di intellettuali e artisti che da Leopardi a Pasolini si è interrogata sul rapporto tra l’identità italiana e la modernità nelle sue implicazioni sociali, culturali, politiche. I motivi che notoriamente attraversano la sua opera, dalla nostalgia dell’infanzia ai fantasmi della femminilità, dall’invenzione del ricordo al sogno, assumono così, alla luce della lettura politica proposta in questo saggio, un’unica connotazione patologica. E diventano, anzitutto, l’allegoria di un Paese incapace di uscire da un’adolescenza permanente, tratto dominante della sua storia e del carattere nazionale. Il libro è corredato da un’appendice che esplora il rapporto tra Federico Fellini e Giulio Andreotti a partire dalle lettere conservate nell’archivio del senatore.
Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture
This edited volume is an inquiry into the representation of intimate relationships in a diverse array of media including cinema, arts, literature, picture books, advertising and popular music. It examines artistic portrayal of intimate relationships as a subversion of the boundaries between the representable and the non-representable, the real and the surreal, the visceral and the ideal, the embodied and the abstracted, the configured and transfigured. The essays focus on artistic mediation of intimacy in diverse relationships, including heterosexual, same-sex, familial, sibling' , political, and sadomasochistic. The collection offers new interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives on current trends in the study of popular representations of intimacy; representations that affect and formulate people's most personal inspirations, desires, angsts, dreams and nightmares in an increasingly alienated, industrialized world.
