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Italian film / Marcia Landy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: National film traditionsPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.Description: xxiii, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521640091 (hardback)
  • 0521649773 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4375
LOC classification:
  • PN 1993.5 L264i 2000
Contents:
Early Italian cinema attractions -- National history as retrospective illusion -- Challenging the folklore of romance -- Comedy and the cinematic machine -- Landscape and neorealism, before and after -- Gramsci and Italian cinema -- History, genre, and the Italian Western -- La famiglia: the cinematic family and the nation -- Cinema of childhood -- Folklore of femininity and stardom -- Conversion, impersonation, and masculinity -- Cinema on cinema and on television.
Summary: "Italian Film examines the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present. Analyzing film within the framework of Italy's historical, social, political, and cultural evolution during the twentieth century, Marcia Landy traces the construction of a coherent national cinema and its changes over time. Examining the cinematic uses of landscape, architecture, regional, rural, and metropolitan locales, and representations of social customs and rituals, Landy also discusses genres, stars, and narrative and anti-narrative forms. A comprehensive survey of this subject, Italian Film also offers fresh readings of key films from each period surveyed."--BOOK JACKET.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1993.5 L264i 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000092693

Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 399-408), filmografía (p. 409-416) e índice

Early Italian cinema attractions -- National history as retrospective illusion -- Challenging the folklore of romance -- Comedy and the cinematic machine -- Landscape and neorealism, before and after -- Gramsci and Italian cinema -- History, genre, and the Italian Western -- La famiglia: the cinematic family and the nation -- Cinema of childhood -- Folklore of femininity and stardom -- Conversion, impersonation, and masculinity -- Cinema on cinema and on television.

"Italian Film examines the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present. Analyzing film within the framework of Italy's historical, social, political, and cultural evolution during the twentieth century, Marcia Landy traces the construction of a coherent national cinema and its changes over time. Examining the cinematic uses of landscape, architecture, regional, rural, and metropolitan locales, and representations of social customs and rituals, Landy also discusses genres, stars, and narrative and anti-narrative forms. A comprehensive survey of this subject, Italian Film also offers fresh readings of key films from each period surveyed."--BOOK JACKET.

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