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The discourse of italian cinema and beyond : let cinema speak /

Roberta Piazza's book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s to the present day. € It looks at how speech is dealt with in studies of the cinema and tackles the lack of engagement with dialogue in film studies. It explores th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Piazza, Roberta
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2011.
Colección:Advances in stylistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements; Chapter One: Background and introduction; Chapter Two: 'If you could say it with words, there'd be no reason to paint'. The verbal-visual interrelation in cinema; Chapter Three: Methodology of the study: the focus on the representation of conflict in film; Chapter Four: Confrontational discourse in comedy and the disengagement of dramatic talk; Chapter Five: Spaghetti and American Westerns: textual conflict between opposing masculinities; Chapter Six: The struggle for narrative autonomy in Antonioni's When Love Fails.
  • Chapter Seven: Conflict of shifting identities in Mohsen Melliti's Me, the OtherChapter Eight: Concluding remarks; Notes; References and filmography; Index.