Book Overview
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, narrative and anti-narrative forms. This study traces how social institutions 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. It also demonstrates the vital links between Italian film and other art forms, including opera, popular music, literature, and painting. A comprehensive survey of this subject, Italian Film also offers fresh readings of key films from each period surveyed.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521649773
ISBN13:9780521649773
Release Date:April 2000
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:460 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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Awesome!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
She is one of the most incredibly sophisticated, sensitive, erudite human beings I have ever made connection with. If she writes it, you must read it. ....
Italian film comes alive
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Landy has done it again! "Italian Film" continues with remarkable clarity her dissection of Italian film culture since "Fascism in Film." Princeton: Princeton University Press; 1986. The book steps outside traditional terrains of national cinema to explore questions of landscape, history, femininity, masculinity, stardom, and relations between film and television. Neorealism finally gets its due in Landy's innovative treatment. Highly recommended for Summer reading.
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