Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 241 p. Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling...
Indiana University Press, 2015. — 392 p. Ruth Ben-Ghiat provides the first in-depth study of feature and documentary films produced under the auspices of Mussolini's government that took as their subjects or settings Italy's African and Balkan colonies. These "empire films" were Italy's entry into an international market for the exotic. The films engaged its most experienced...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 205 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-521-57325-2, ISBN13: 978-0-521-57573-7 The Films of Federico Fellini examines the career of one of Italy’s most renowned filmmakers through close analysis of five masterpieces that span his career: La strada , La dolce vita , 8 1⁄2 , Amarcord , and Intervista . Providing an overview of Fellini’s early career as a...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. - 180 pp. The Films of Roberto Rossellini traces the career of one of the most influential Italian filmmakers through close analysis of the seven films that mark important turning points in his evolution: The Man with a Cross (1943), Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Machine to Kill Bad People (1948-52), Voyage in Italy (1953), General Delia...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 752 p. A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni reorganize the current History in order to...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 578 p. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Federico Fellini presents new methodologies and fresh insights for encountering, appreciating, and contextualizing the director's films in the 21st century. A milestone in Fellini scholarship, this volume provides contributions by leading scholars, intellectuals, and filmmakers, as well as insights from...
John Wiley, 2017. — 648 p. — (Wiley-Blackwell Companions). Written by leading figures in the field, A Companion to Italian Cinema re-maps Italian cinema studies, employing new perspectives on traditional issues, and fresh theoretical approaches to the exciting history and field of Italian cinema. Offers new approaches to Italian cinema, whose importance in the post-war period...
State University of New York Press, 2022. — 208 p. Orienting Italy explores contemporary Italian filmmakers' fascination with China and the Chinese in both documentary and fictional films. Delineating the contours of this fascination, the book begins with the works of Carlo Lizzani (Behind the Great Wall, 1958) and Michelangelo Antonioni (Chung Kuo—China, 1972), both of whom...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 256 p.
A New Guide to Italian Cinema, with co-author Carlo Celli, is a complete reworking and update of Marga Cottino-Jones' popular A Student's Guide to Italian Film (1983, 1993). This guide retains earlier editions' interest in renowned films and directors but is also attentive to popular cinema, the films which actually achieved box office success...
Austin: University of Texas, 2008. — 333 p. — ISBN: 978-0-292-71661-2. As scientific discoveries and technological advances radically modernized Europe around the turn of the twentieth century, artists of all types began questioning what it means to be human in an increasingly mechanistic world. Animated by a luminous goddess at its center, the diva film provided a forum for...
Revised and updated edition. — Guildford, Surrey, England, UK.: FAB Press, 1999. — 111 p. — ISBN: 9780952926047. Cannibal Holocaust is widely acclaimed as being one of the greatest horror movies of all time; indeed this hugely influential film is so devastatingly effective that it is often wrongly accused of being a 'Snuff' movie. This book is the fully authorised guide to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 193 p. Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it has been credited with initiating a revolution in and reinvention of modern cinema, bold claims that are substantiated when its impact on how films are conceptualized, made, structured,...
Peter Lang, 2016. — 452 p. In the period 1940 to 1965 the female prostitute featured in at least ten per cent of all Italian-made films, but she cast her shadow over many more. With reference to the changing social and film industrial context, this book explains why the figure of the female prostitute was so prevalent in Italian cinema of this period and offers a new account of...
London: I. B. Tauris, 2011. — 325 p. Uncovering a treasure trove of Italian films from The Leopard to Puma Man - Italian filmmakers have created some of the most magical and moving, violent and controversial films in world cinema. During its twentieth-century heyday, Italy's film industry was second only to Hollywood as a popular film factory, exporting cinematic dreams...
I.B. Tauris, 2006. — 288 p. Covering the key Italian Spaghetti Westerns - mainly the good but also the bad and the ugly - this is an authoritative, entertaining and comprehensive companion to the mythical Spaghetti West. Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy led the field but many more major Spaghetti Westerns were made by important directors, including Sergio Corbucci's Navajo Joe,...
Peter Lang, 2016. — 457 p. Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed its longstanding engagement with questions of politics, both in the narrow definition of the term, and in a wider understanding that takes in reflections on public life, imaginary, and national identity. This book...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 232 p. A Cinema of Poetry brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understanding of aesthetic questions that stretch back to Homer. Joseph Luzzi considers the relationship between film and literature, such as the cinematic adaptation of literary sources, and...
Princeton University Press, 1986. — 456 p. — ISBN 0-691-05489-4. The movement known as neorealism lasted seven years, generated only twenty-one films, failed at the box office, and fell short of its didactic and aesthetic aspirations. Yet it exerted such a profound influence on Italian cinema that all the best postwar directors had to come to terms with it, whether in seeming...
London; N.Y.: Routledge, 1996. — 202 p. — ISBN 0-203-13466-4. From such films as La dolce vita and Bicycle Thieves to Cinema Paradiso and Dear Diary, Italian cinema has provided striking images of Italy as a nation and a people. In the first comprehensive study of Italian cinema from 1896 to the present, Pierre Sorlin explores the changing relationship of Italian cinema and...
NY, London: Routledge, 2009. — 198 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-415-96287-2, 978-0-203-88488-1. Through a comparative approach of current theories developed on ideology and an analysis of official documents from the Vatican and the United States Department of State, the book investigates the decisive role that American production companies played in the development of the Italian film...
Сборник статей. — Пер. с итал. — Сост., вступ. ст. и комм. Г. Д. Богемского. — М.: Искусство, 1989. — 431 с. В сборник включены статьи, интервью, фрагменты работ Л. Висконти, Ч. Дзаваттини, М. Антониони, Ф. Феллини и других выдающихся деятелей итальянского кино. Многие из этих материалов публикуются в нашей стране впервые. На страницах книги оживает история итальянского кино...
М.: Искусство, 1965. — 256 с., 16 л. ил. — (Мастера зарубежного киноискусства). Кинорежиссер Джузеппе де Сантис, творчеству которого посвящена эта книга, стоял у колыбели нового течения в итальянском кино. В моменты самых ожесточенных атак на неореализм Де Сантис оставался одним из самых последовательных в своем творчестве режиссеров нового направления в искусстве. Его позиции...
М.: Искусство, 1986. — 302 с.: 16 л. ил. Сборник посвящен кинематографическому творчеству одного из крупнейших деятелей прогрессивной культуры Италии, выдающегося режиссера, создателя таких фильмов, как «Земля дрожит» и «Самая красивая», «Рокко и его братья» и «Леопард», «Смерть в Венеции» и «Семейный портрет в интерьере». В книгу включены работы советских исследователей о...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1955. — 256 с. В своей книге, посвященной кино, Луиджи Кьярини (1900—1975) говорит о художественной кинематографии, касается научно-популярных и учебных фильмов, рассказывает о неблагополучном положении с документальными фильмами и о состоянии фильмотечного дела и развитии науки о кино. Каких бы вопросов ни касался Кьярини в своей книге,...
М.: Искусство, 1956. — 194 с., 47 л. ил. Пер. с ит. Г. Богемского. Реалистическое направление в послевоенной итальянской кинематографии, получившее название «неореализм», в течение нескольких лет завоевало прочные позиции. Итальянские «неореалистические» фильмы, такие, как «Похитители велосипедов» В. Де Сика, «Земля дрожит» Л. Висконти, «Рим в 11 часов» Д. Де Сантиса, «Рим —...
М.: Информация для всех, 2024. — 68 с. Какие итальянские игровые фильмы пользовались популярностью в кинопрокате Италии? Каковы данные посещаемости этих фильмов? На эти вопросы отвечает данный справочник. Справочное издание предназначено для преподавателей высшей школы, студентов, аспирантов, исследователей, кинокритиков, киноведов, журналистов, а также для круга читателей,...
М.: Издательство иностранной литературы, 1959. — 258 с.: 35 л. ил. Книга итальянского критика Джузеппе Феррары «Новое итальянское кино» посвящена вопросу становления неореализма в итальянском искусстве кино. В ней автор излагает свой взгляд на развитие неореализма с момента его зарождения, уделяя значительное внимание рассмотрению творчества крупных кинорежиссеров и важнейших...
М.: Искусство, 1965. — 224 с.: ил. — (Мастера зарубежного киноискусства). Книга посвящена творчеству выдающегося итальянского режиссера Лукино Висконти. Очерки посвящены его фильмам: «Одержимость», «Земля дрожит», «Самая красивая», «Страсть», «Белые ночи», «Рокко его его братья», «Леопард». В заключении приводится фильмография режиссера и кадры из фильмов. Одержимость. Земля...
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