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Product Identifiers
PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
ISBN-101474474047
ISBN-139781474474047
eBay Product ID (ePID)9057255747
Product Key Features
Number of Pages344 Pages
Publication NameExperimental and Independent Italian Cinema : Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
SubjectFilm / Référence, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPerforming Arts
AuthorCarlo Coen
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsOffering one of the first sustained investigations of Italian experimental and avant-garde cinema in English, this volume presents the research of leading specialists into the history, theory and practice of independent filmmaking in Italy. It is an essential and long-awaited contribution to our knowledge of this fascinating area of audio-visual experimentation in 20th- and 21st-Century Italian cinema., Offering one of the first sustained investigations of Italian experimental and avant-garde cinema in English, this volume presents the research of leading specialists into the history, theory and practice of independent filmmaking in Italy. It is an essential and long-awaited contribution to our knowledge of this fascinating area of audio-visual experimentation in 20th-and 21st-Century Italian cinema., By providing a rich and insightful account of experimental and independent Italian cinema from the 1960s to our present, the edited collection Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century is poised to become a cornerstone in the scholarship on these topics. Readers in search of detailed genealogies and legacies of artists such as Marinella Pirelli, Gianfranco Brebbia, Mirko Locatelli and Massimo Bacigalupo or phenomena like the Milanese film festival Filmmaker, mostly unheard-of in the English-speaking academic world, will find in this book an essential source.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.436110945
Table Of ContentIntroductionChapter 1: Filmmaker and the Milanese independent cinema of the 1980s and 1990sDonatella Maraschin and Paola NasiniChapter 2: Light and Liminal: Marinella Pirelli's CinemaMatilde NardelliChapter 3: From Vertov to Cine-Journals: Cesare Zavattini's Experimental JourneyCarlo CoenChapter 4: Gianfranco Brebbia. The 'Absurd', Expanded Quality of Experimental Cinema (1962-1973)Donatella ValenteChapter 5: Italian Family Films: The Case of the Archivio Nazionale di BolognaLaura CeccarelliChapter 6: Travelling the world. The essay films of Massimo Bacigalupo (1968-1977)Donatella Valente Chapter 7: Tales of Courage: Trade Stories of Italian Independent CinemaEdward BowenChapter 8: Independence as Opposition? Redefining Political Cinema through the Case of Mirko LocatelliGloria DagninoChapter 9: Niccolò Bruna's Ethical Process as Social Engagement: Upholding Human Stories against a Backdrop of GlobalizationDavid H. Fleming and Filippo GilardiChapter 10: The Paradox of 'Independence' in Cyberspace: The Case of Italian Experimental and Independent CinemaAnthony Cristiano
SynopsisDiscussing a variety of independent and experimental Italian films, this book gives voice to a critcically neglected form of Italian cinema. By examining the work of directors such as Marinella Pirelli, Mirko Locatelli and Cesrae Zavattini, the book defines, inspects and studies the cinematic panorama of Italy through a new lens. It thereby explores the character of independent films and their related practices within the Italian historical, cultural and cinematic landscape., Discussing a variety of independent and experimental Italian films, this book gives voice to a critcically neglected form of Italian cinema and explores the character of independent films and their related practices within the Italian historical, cultural and cinematic landscape.