Author(s): Carlo Celli, Marga Cottino-Jones
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 256
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 10
Remote History......Page 12
1 Italy from Unification to World War I......Page 16
The Cultural Scene......Page 22
Origins of Italian Cinema......Page 24
Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria and Gabriele D'Annunzio......Page 25
Divismo......Page 31
2 The Fascist Years (1922–43)......Page 34
The Cultural Scene......Page 39
Film in Fascist Italy......Page 41
Alessandro Blasetti......Page 43
Mario Camerini and White Telephone Comedies......Page 47
Precursors of Neorealism......Page 49
3 World War II......Page 54
The Cultural and Literary Roots of Neorealism......Page 57
Neorealism in Film......Page 59
Roberto Rossellini and Open City (1945)......Page 60
4 Reconstruction and the Late '40s......Page 68
Film: The Late 1940s......Page 71
5 The 1950s......Page 82
The Development of Neorealism......Page 83
The Visconti–Fellini Debate......Page 89
De Sica, Television, and Popular Film in the 1950s......Page 92
6 The Early 1960s......Page 98
The Economic Boom......Page 99
Italian Cinema Boom......Page 100
Commedia all'italiana (Comedy Italian Style)......Page 103
The Spaghetti Western of Sergio Leone......Page 108
7 The Later 1960s......Page 112
Art Cinema......Page 114
Roberto Rossellini......Page 115
Luchino Visconti......Page 116
Federico Fellini......Page 117
Michelangelo Antonioni......Page 118
Vittorio De Sica......Page 119
Art Cinema Newcomers......Page 120
Pier Paolo Pasolini......Page 123
Bernardo Bertolucci......Page 125
8 The 1970s......Page 128
Film and Television in the 1970s and 1980s......Page 130
Comedies and Popular Cinema in the 1970s......Page 132
Political Film/Instant Movie......Page 133
The Poliziesco Crime Genre......Page 138
The Heirs to Italian Art Cinema......Page 140
9 The 1980s and 1990s: A Changing Society......Page 142
The "New Italian Cinema"......Page 144
A Nostalgic Narrative......Page 149
Benigni's La vita è bella......Page 154
10 The Next Millennium......Page 158
The Cultural Scene......Page 159
Italian Cinema in the New Millennium......Page 161
Appendix 1: Short Introduction to Film Study......Page 176
Appendix 2: Box Office......Page 186
Appendix 3: The Major Directors......Page 204
Appendix 4: Italian Political Parties......Page 218
Notes......Page 220
Selected Bibliography......Page 232
B......Page 240
C......Page 241
D......Page 242
G......Page 243
K......Page 244
M......Page 245
P......Page 246
S......Page 247
T......Page 248
Z......Page 249
