The New Neapolitan Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780748668779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str.

Alex Marlow-Mann

Opis

Vito and the Others (1991), Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician (1992) and Libera (1993), the debuts of three young Neapolitan filmmakers, stood out dramatically from the landscape of Italian cinema in the early 1990s. On the back of their critical success, over the next decade and a half, Naples became a thriving centre for film production.In this first study in English of one of the most vital and stimulating currents in contemporary European Cinema, Alex Marlow-Mann provides a detailed, multi-faceted and provocative study of this distinct regional tradition. In tracing the movement's relationship with the popular musical melodramas previously produced in Naples, he reveals how contemporary Neapolitan filmmakers have interrogated, subverted and reconfigured cinematic convention as part of a through-going re-examination of Neapolitan identity.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The Italian Film Industry and Neapolitan Cinema; 2. Characteristics and Functions of the Neapolitan Formula; 3. 'Estranei alla massa': The New Neapolitan Cinema and the Crisis in Napoletanità; 4. Gold and Dust: Hybridity, Postmodernism and the Legacy of Neapolitan Narrative; 5. Symbolic Politics: The Neapolitan Renaissance and the Politics of the New Neapolitan Cinema; Conclusion; Appendices.