Italian cinema from neorealism to the present

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bondanella, Peter E. 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London Continuum 2001
Edition:3rd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Background: The Silent Era and the Fascist Period
  • 2. The Masters of Neorealism: Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti
  • 3. Exploring the Boundaries of Neorealism
  • 4. The Break with Neorealism: Rossellini in Transition, Early Antonioni and Fellini
  • 5. A Decisive Decade: Commedia all'italiana, Neorealism's Legacy, and a New Generation
  • 6. The Mature Auteurs: New Dimensions in Film Narrative with Visconti, Antonioni, and Fellini
  • 7. A Fistful of Pasta: Sergio Leone and the Spaghetti Western
  • 8. Myth and Marx: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci
  • 9. Politics and Ideology in the Contemporary Italian Cinema
  • 10. The Contemporary Scene and New Italian Comedy
  • 11. Italian Cinema in the 1980s
  • 12. The Italian Cinema Enters the Third Millennium.