Contemporary Italian Filmmaking : : Strategies of Subversion: Pirandello, Fellini, Scola, and the Directors of the New Generation / / Manuela Gieri.
Contemporary Italian Filmmaking is an innovative critique of Italian filmmaking in the aftermath of World War II - as it moves beyond traditional categories such as genre film and auteur cinema. Manuela Gieri demonstrates that Luigi Pirandello's revolutionary concept of humour was integral to t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Italian Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Pirandello and the Cinema?
- 1. He Lost It at the Movies: A Love-Hate Relationship of Over Thirty Years
- 2. Pirandello and the Theory of the Cinema
- 3. The Origins of the Myths: From Pirandello to Fellini
- 4. Character and Discourse from Pirandello to Fellini: Defining a Countertradition in an Italian Context
- 5. Ettore Scola: A Cinematic and Social Metadiscourse
- 6. The New Italian Cinema: Restoration or Subversion?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index