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A history of Italian cinema
- Title
- A history of Italian cinema / Peter Bondanella.
- Author
- Bondanella, Peter, 1943-2017.
- Publication
- New York : Continuum, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 684 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 593-645) and index.
- Contents
- Part One: Early Italian Cinema -- The silent era -- The coming of sound and the fascist era -- Part Two: Italian Neorealism -- Masters of neorealism: Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti -- Exploring the boundaries of neorealism -- The break with neorealism: the cinema of the reconstruction, Fellini's trilogies of character and grace, and the return of melodrama -- Part Three: The Golden Age of Italian Cinema -- The Italian "Peplum": the sword and sandal epic -- Commedia all'italiana: comedy and social criticism -- Neorealism's legacy to a new generation, and the Italian political film -- The mateur auteurs: new dimensions in film narrative in Visconti, Antonioni, De Sica, and Fellini -- The spaghetti nightmare: horror films from the 1950s to the present -- A fistful of pasta: Sergio Leone and the spaghetti western -- Mystery, gore, and mayhem: the Italian Giallo -- Myth, Marx, and Freud in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci -- The Poliziesco: Italian crime films from the 1970s to the present -- Part Four: Generational Change in the Contemporary Italian Cinema -- The old guard never surrenders: Italy's prewar auteurs in the 1980s and 1990s -- The third wave: a new generation of auteurs -- Italian cinema enters the third millennium.
- Call Number
- MFL 10-1379
- ISBN
- 9780826417855 (hbk.)
- 082641785X (hbk.)
- 9781441160690 (pbk.)
- 1441160698 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 426120543
- Author
- Bondanella, Peter, 1943-2017.
- Title
- A history of Italian cinema / Peter Bondanella.
- Imprint
- New York : Continuum, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 593-645) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 10-1379