The Body in the Mirror : Shapes of History in Italian Cinema

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This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci. Here is a new kind of film history--a nonlinear, intertextual approach that confronts the total story of the growth of a national c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Dalle Vacche, Angela
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Motion pictures.
Italians > Ethnic identity.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Cinema > Italie > Histoire.
Motion pictures > Italy > History.
Italy.
Italy > In motion pictures.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci. Here is a new kind of film history--a nonlinear, intertextual approach that confronts the total story of the growth of a national cinema while challenging the traditional formats of general histories and period studies. Examining Italian silent films of the fascist era through neorealism to modernist filmmaking after May 1968, Angela Dalle Vacche reveals opera and the commedia dell'arte to be the strongest influences. As she pres.
Notas:Cover; Contents.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (330 pages).
ISBN:9781400862542

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