Italian Film

ISBN-13: 9780521649773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 460 str.

Marcia Landy

Opis

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. Her study traces how social institutions--school, family, the Church--as well as Italian notions of masculinity and femininity are dealt with in cinema and how they are central to the conceptions (and misconceptions) of national identity.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Early cinema attractions; 2. National history as retrospective illusion; 3. Challenging the folklore romance; 4. Comedy and the cinematic machine; 5. The urban landscape, before and after Neorealism; 6. Gramsci and Italian cinema; 7. History and the Italian Western; 8. The cinematic family and the nation; 9. A cinema of childhood; 10. The Folklore of femininity and stardom; 11. Conversion, impersonation, and masculinity; 12. Cinema on cinema and television.