Italian Cinema

William Hope

ISBN 10: 3039102826 / ISBN 13: 9783039102822

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2004, 2004

A propos de cet article

Neuware -Italian cinema currently finds itself in a transitional phase after a highly successful period in which it was associated with the work of directors such as Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini, and Pasolini, and with innovative styles of film-making, principally neorealism. This book explores the evolution of Italian cinema over the last twenty years, with particular reference to modern masterpieces such as Tornatore¿s Oscar-winning Nuovo Cinema Paradiso. The volume focuses on the work of some of the most prominent directors of recent times, combining an auteurist perspective with an incisive overview of the most important thematic and stylistic developments in modern Italian film-making.A broad range of theoretical approaches has been selected, embracing cognitive, aesthetic, psychoanalytical, and sociological perspectives. This approach has been adopted with a view to providing the most illuminating analyses of the radically diverse work of different directors, rather than attempting to impose a single critical perspective or theme upon films that range from social realism to horror. Significantly, these different approaches are complemented by detailed discussions of the technical arrangements of given film sequences, since another of the volume¿s aims is to encourage a greater familiarity with the effects of mise-en-scène, montage, sound, and camera movement.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 280 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Italian Cinema
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Nov 2004
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3039102826
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783039102822
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 225 L x 150 H x 16 P (en millimètres) 225 millimètres de largeur par 150 millimètres de hauteur par 16 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 397 grammes

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Synopsis

Italian cinema currently finds itself in a transitional phase after a highly successful period in which it was associated with the work of directors such as Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini, and Pasolini, and with innovative styles of film-making, principally neorealism. This book explores the evolution of Italian cinema over the last twenty years, with particular reference to modern masterpieces such as Tornatore's Oscar-winning Nuovo Cinema Paradiso. The volume focuses on the work of some of the most prominent directors of recent times, combining an auteurist perspective with an incisive overview of the most important thematic and stylistic developments in modern Italian film-making. A broad range of theoretical approaches has been selected, embracing cognitive, aesthetic, psychoanalytical, and sociological perspectives. This approach has been adopted with a view to providing the most illuminating analyses of the radically diverse work of different directors, rather than attempting to impose a single critical perspective or theme upon films that range from social realism to horror. Significantly, these different approaches are complemented by detailed discussions of the technical arrangements of given film sequences, since another of the volume's aims is to encourage a greater familiarity with the effects of mise-en-scène, montage, sound, and camera movement.

À propos de l?auteur

The Editor : William Hope is a lecturer in Italian language, literature and cinema at the University of Salford. He graduated from the University of Kent, did a PGCE at the University of York and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham. He has published volumes on the films of Giuseppe Tornatore, and on the writings of the novelist and journalist Curzio Malaparte.