Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics

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Oxford University Press, 01‏/03‏/2013 - 288 من الصفحات
Examining the landmark works that ushered in Italy's golden age of cinema, P. Adams Sitney provides a stylish, historically rich survey of the epochal films made by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and others in the years after World War II. Remarking on the period in 1957, Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote that its films reflected a "vital crisis" in Italian culture after the fall of Fascism. Sitney expands this conceit to demonstrate the multivalent social and political forces behind a range of movies made from the mid-1940s through the1960s that includes Paisa, La terra trema, Ladri di biciclette, L'Avventura, and La dolce vita. Throughout its pages, the book considers how the nation's cinema depicts the convergence of Christian and Resistance iconography; contemplates the debate over dialect and a national language; deploys cinematic effects for the purposes of political allegory; and incorporates insights from the psychoanalytic discourse that became popular in Italy during the fifties and sixties. This new edition includes an epilogue that extends the range of the study into the 1970s with discussions of Nanni Moretti's Io sono autaurchico, the Tavianis' Padre Padrone, and Ermanno Olmi's L'albero degli zoccoli.

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1 Introduction
3
2 Rossellinis Resistance
27
The National Language Dialect and the Southern Question
55
4 De Sicas and Zavattinis Neopopulism
75
5 Between the Vital Crises
97
6 Annus Mirabilis
105
Illustrations
132
7 Antonionis Psychoanalysis of the Boom
137
Pasolini Olmi Rosi
163
9 Conclusion
195
Pastoral Education in Language and Politics
207
Notes
237
Index
249
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P. Adams Sitney is a Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. His previous books include Visionary Film: The American Avan-Garde 1943-2000 and Eyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson.

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