Pierre Sorlin looks at the way the nations of Europe have expressed their cultural individuality in film, and shows how the impact of a common evolution towards federalism can be detected in films.
Pierre Sorlin looks at the way the nations of Europe have expressed their cultural individuality in film, and shows how the impact of a common evoluti...
Sorlin discusses the work of major film makers such as De Sica, Visconti, Fellini, Antonioni and Moretti in the context of national film output, considering both films which became internationally acclaimed and those which, though popular with the domestic audience, were never released outside Italy. Beginning with the evolution of the cinema audience and the development of domestic production, Sorlin examines Italian cinema from the dark years of fascism through to postwar neorealism and big budget commercial films. In the final section he discusses the place of cinema in the context of the...
Sorlin discusses the work of major film makers such as De Sica, Visconti, Fellini, Antonioni and Moretti in the context of national film output, consi...
