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Masters of Two Arts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Masters of Two Arts

Carlo Testa demonstrates that while pairings of famed directors and writers are commonplace in modern Italian cinema, the study of the interrelation between Italian cinema and European literature has been almost completely neglected in film scholarship.

L’occhio moltiplicatore del cinema
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 205

L’occhio moltiplicatore del cinema

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-07T00:00:00+02:00
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  • Publisher: Mimesis

Il cinema, come qualsiasi altra forma d’arte, va interpretato. L’occhio dello spettatore si muove alla ricerca di un’immagine che gli somigli, come tutto ciò che riguarda le scelte dell’Io (per dirla con Freud). Tutti guardiamo lo stesso film, eppure, al di là della trama, tutti “vediamo” cose diverse. Il film ci illude di essere dentro la realtà, perchè la sua natura è duplice, illusoria e reale insieme. La soggettività regna sovrana. Un autore racconta il suo punto di vista e lo spettatore si illude di condividerlo. In realtà, un film ci sta dando soltanto lo spunto per specchiarci dentro inconsciamente. Pensiamo di aver guardato qualcosa di diverso da noi, ma in verità ci siamo soltanto autoanalizzati. L’analisi di alcuni fra i maggiori autori nella storia del cinema, unita alla riflessione su alcune opere della cinematografia di ogni tempo, consente di addentrarci in questo gioco di specchi, che si moltiplica e ci moltiplica all’infinito.

Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Writing and Performing Female Identity in Italian Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-28
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume investigates the ways in which Italian women writers, filmmakers, and performers have represented female identity across genres from the immediate post-World War II period to the turn of the twenty-first century. Considering genres such as prose, poetry, drama, and film, these essays examine the vision of female agency and self-actualization arising from women artists’ critique of female identity. This dual approach reveals unique interpretations of womanhood in Italy spanning more than fifty years, while also providing a deep investigation of the manipulation of canvases historically centered on the male subject. With its unique coupling of generic and thematic concerns, the volume contributes to the ever expanding female artistic legacy, and to our understanding of postwar Italian women’s evolving relationship to the narration of history, gender roles, and these artists’ use and revision of generic convention to communicate their vision.

Claretta
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Claretta

A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of Il Duce and his young lover Claretta, whose extraordinarily intimate diaries only recently have become available Few deaths are as gruesome and infamous as those of Benito Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator, and Claretta (or Clara) Petacci, his much-younger lover. Shot dead by Italian partisans after attempting to flee the country in 1945, the couple’s bodies were then hanged upside down in Milan’s main square in ignominious public display. This provocative book is the first to mine Clara’s extensive diaries, family correspondence, and other sources to discover how the last in Mussolini’s long line of lovers became his intimate and how she came to her violent fate at his side. R. J. B. Bosworth explores the social climbing of Claretta’s family, her naïve and self-interested commitment to fascism, her diary’s graphically detailed accounts of sexual life with Mussolini, and much more. Brimful of new and arresting information, the book sheds intimate light not only on an ordinary-extraordinary woman living at the heart of Italy’s totalitarian fascist state but also on Mussolini himself.

Post-War Italian Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Post-War Italian Cinema

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-02-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book focuses on the involvement of the United States and the Vatican in the Italian film industry between 1945 and 1960. Gennari analyzes the tensions between economic (film industry), political (government) and ideological pressures.

Italian Cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 564

Italian Cinema

Italian Cinema is the only complete and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language. New coverage from 1989 to the present includes the Italian horror-film genre, Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful et al.), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty), Franco Zeffirelli (Tea with Mussolini), Michael Radford (The Postman ÝIl postino ̈), Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo), Maurizio Nichetti (The Bicycle Thief et al.), Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, The Starmaker), and much more. The book has been extensively revised and updated, including all-new notes, bibliography, plus videocassette and DVD information.

The Films of Roberto Rossellini
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

The Films of Roberto Rossellini

A close analysis of the seven films that mark important turning points in Rossellini's evolution: The Man with a Cross (1943), Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Machine to Kill Bad People (1948-52), Voyage in Italy (1953), to General della Rovere(1959), and The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (1966).

Occult Imperium
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Occult Imperium

Christian Giudice's Occult Imperium explores Italian national forms of occultism, chiefly analyzing Arturo Reghini (1878-1946), his copious writings, and Roman Traditionalism. Using Reghini's articles, books, and letters, as a guide, Giudice explores the interaction between Occultism, Traditionalism, and different facets of modernity in early-twentieth-century Italy. The book takes into consideration many factors particular to the Italian peninsula: the ties with avant-garde movements such as the Florentine Scapigliatura and Futurism, the occult vogues typical to Italy, the rise to power of Benito Mussolini and Fascism, and, lastly, the power of the Holy See over different expressions of spirituality.

Nannarella
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 181

Nannarella

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-08-11T00:00:00+02:00
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  • Publisher: Fazi Editore

A cinquant’anni dalla morte, Anna Magnani rimane un’icona del cinema italiano del dopoguerra. Simbolo dell’Italia nel periodo della Ricostruzione, capace di spaziare con grande naturalezza dai toni drammatici a quelli leggeri, riuscì a incarnare come poche la voglia di riscatto e le passioni tipiche di quegli anni. Nannarella, omaggio alla sua figura, torna in libreria in un’edizione rinnovata con l’aggiunta di un capitolo espressamente dedicato alla sua famiglia, immigrata a Roma ma di origini romagnole. Con la sua penna brillante, Giancarlo Governi ripercorre l’intera parabola esistenziale di una donna che, dall’infanzia passata in una casa di sole donne fino al successo int...

Vittorio Gassman
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 109

Vittorio Gassman

  • Categories: Art

Una promessa del basket mancata. Da giovanissimo Vittorio Gassman ha davanti a sé un futuro con la palla a spicchi ma poi, dopo la scuola, decide di iscriversi all’Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica. Comincia così la carriera di uno dei più grandi attori italiani del dopoguerra, un gigante del Novecento diventato una vera e propria icona con i suoi film. Una carriera che ha spaziato tra cinema, teatro, tv, poesia, riuscendo in quello che solo i grandi possono: coniugare la cultura alta con lo spettacolo popolare. Il presente volume – il quinto della serie di “Visioni di Cinema – Quaderni di Visioni Corte Film Festival” – vuole essere un omaggio al grande attore e regista, in occasione del centenario della nascita. Hanno partecipato con i loro scritti i critici cinematografici Ciro Borrelli, Andrea Ciaffaroni, Gianmarco Cilento, Francesco Mattana, Domenico Palattella, Davide Persico, Roberta Verde, approfondendo vari aspetti della sua carriera.