Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics - Softcover

Sitney, P. Adams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199862176 ISBN 13: 9780199862177

Verlag: OUP USA, 2013

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Book by Sitney P Adams

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Críticas:

Vital Crises in Italian Cinema is characterized by an extremely sensitive attention to aesthetic issues. It is one of the very few books on Italian cinema that manages to put politics and art, film and society, together intelligently. Its new epilogue brings it ahead to another important milestone in the development of Italian film history. (Peter Bonadella, author of A History of Italian Cinema)

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First published in 1995 b, P. Adams Sitney's Vital Crises in Italian Cinema has become a work of enduring importance in the study of Italian films produced from 1945-1963. Examining over twenty key works of the period, Sitney identifies and explores the major thematic crises at the heart of seminal films produced by the likes of Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Michael Antonioni, and Federico Fellini. The debate over regional dialects and a unified national language find reflection in Visconti's La terra trema and its source, the novel I Malavoglia. The father-son relationship serves as an opportunity to consider the tension between filial loyalty and individuality in works such as Uccellacci e uccellini and Ladri di biciclette. Romantic love juxtaposed with lust against the background of Roman Catholic iconography exemplifies another recurring predicament in the nation's cinema. Rocco i suoi fratelli, La dolce Vita, and Accatone all feature female and male characters grappling with the idea of woman as either the epitome of Marian virtue or Magdalene-like sexuality. With each film under discussion, Sitney provides the relevant political and cultural context to demonstrate how the changes in Italian life found their way into cinematic art. A new afterword extends the range of the study to the early 1970s, as it considers the pastoral ideal deflated by urban reality in Padre Padrone and L'albero degli zoccoli.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199862176
• ISBN 13: 9780199862177
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288