{"product_id":"italian-cinema-from-the-silent-screen-to-the-digital-image-9781441195616","title":"Italian Cinema from the Silent Screen to the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Luzzi\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Italian and Director of Italian Studies at Bard College, USA, and the author of \u003ci\u003eRomantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), which received the MLA's Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of carefully-researched essays forms a multifaceted, functional, and up-to-date reference volume that should be on the shelf of every cinephile and student of Italian cinema. * Federico Pacchioni, Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures, Chapman University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThe writers assembled here by Joseph Luzzi - some of them well-known scholars at the top of their game, others new voices emerging with power and flair - engage us at all stages of this rich new volume on Italian cinema. Here is a reference work that makes good its title promise - to cover an entire history, from the age of silent screen to digital images of more than a century later. The various chapters weave pathways into existing knowledge, extending lines of inquiry in a variety of enticing directions. Individual film critics here take different approaches, but in all cases the writing styles are cogent, intriguing, and a challenge both to other scholars and to the general reader. A clear overall chronology by Mattia Acetoso leads the volume. Each further chapter has a comprehensive bibliography and filmography of the particular aspect of Italian cinema under consideration. In all respects the contributors prove worthy of the volume’s dedicatee, Millicent Marcus, whose pioneering work in the field has for decades drawn others magnetically to it, and whose own contribution here is one of many pieces of exemplary exploration. Those readers who are well acquainted with aspects of Italian cinema will find their senses of it revitalised, discovering unknown films to watch and old favourites to consider in new ways. Those by contrast who so far know relatively little will receive guidance here, and stimulation to commence their own exploration with fascination and in bold individual ways. Here is a volume that will enhance love of and expertise about Italian cinema - and indeed Italian culture more generally, since all the contributions are richly contextualised - for many years to come. * Jonathan White, Professor Emeritus in Literature, University of Essex, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Contributors Glossary\u003c\/b\u003e Mattia Acetoso (Boston College, USA) \u003cb\u003eChronology \u003c\/b\u003e Mattia Acestoso (Boston College, USA) \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Luzzi (Bard College, USA) \u003cb\u003ePart I - Chronologies and Movements \u003c\/b\u003e1. Italian Silent Film \u003ci\u003eAntonio Costa (Università di Padova, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e2. Futurism and Film \u003ci\u003eMichael Syrimis (Tulane University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e3. The Never-Ending Story of Film and Fascism \u003ci\u003eVito Zagarrio (Università di Roma Tre, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e4. Neorealism \u003ci\u003eGiuliana Minghelli (McGill University, Canada) \u003c\/i\u003e5. The Orphaned Generation: Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s \u003ci\u003eAlessia Ricciardi (Northwestern University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e6. Persistence of Vision: Realism and the Popular in Italian Cinema of the New Millennium \u003ci\u003eMillicent Marcus (Yale University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II - Gender, Genre, Theory \u003c\/b\u003e7. The Five Faces of the Italian Femme Fatale \u003ci\u003eStephen Gundle (University of Warwick, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e8. Italian Women's Cinema and the Wounded Filmic Body \u003ci\u003eDana Renga (The Ohio State University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e9. The Cinematic Evolution of \u003ci\u003eCommedia all'Italiana\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarcia Landy (University of Pittsburgh, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e10. Popular Italian Cinema \u003ci\u003eCatherine O'Rawe (University of Bristol, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e11. Italian Film Theory, 1907-2015 \u003ci\u003eGabriele Pedullà (Università di Roma Tre, Italy) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III - Relations and Debates \u003c\/b\u003e12. Film Music: \"\u003ci\u003eKaos\u003c\/i\u003e and the Taviani\" \u003ci\u003eDaniela Bini (University of Texas, Austin, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e13. Photography and Film \u003ci\u003eSarah Carey (McGraw-Hill Education) \u003c\/i\u003e14. Television and Film \u003ci\u003eStefano Baschiera (Queen's University Belfast, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e15. Italian Documentary and the Predicaments of the \u003ci\u003eAuteur\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLuca Caminati (Concordia University, Canada) and Mauro Sassi (Independent Scholar) \u003c\/i\u003e16. The Global Impact of Italian Neorealism \u003ci\u003eLaura E. Ruberto (Berkeley City College, USA) and Kristi M. Wilson (Soka University of America, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV - Films in Focus \u003c\/b\u003e17. \u003ci\u003eCabiria\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Rushing (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e18. \u003ci\u003eSenso\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrendan Hennessey (Binghamton University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e19. \u003ci\u003eBitter Rice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharles L. Leavitt IV (University of Notre Dame, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e20. \u003ci\u003eLa strada\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFederico Pacchioni (Chapman University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e21. \u003ci\u003eL'avventura\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn David Rhodes (University of Cambridge, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e22. \u003ci\u003eOnce upon a Time in the West\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaryann McDonald Carolan (Fairfield University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e23. \u003ci\u003eTheorem\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert S.C. Gordon (University of Cambridge, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e24. \u003ci\u003eThe Conformist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Cramer (Sarah Lawrence College, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e25. \u003ci\u003eLove and Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBernadette Luciano (University of Auckland, New Zealand) \u003c\/i\u003e26. \u003ci\u003eThe Best of Youth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlan O'Leary (University of Leeds, UK) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V - Behind the Scenes \u003c\/b\u003e27. Sound and Soundtrack in Italian Cinema \u003ci\u003eMonica Facchini (Colgate University, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e28. Screenwriting \u003ci\u003eCosetta Gaudenzi (University of Memphis, USA) \u003c\/i\u003e29. Open-Air Cinema \u003ci\u003eAllison Cooper (Bowdoin College, USA) \u003c\/i\u003eIndex","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039846924631,"sku":"9781441195616","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781441195616.jpg?v=1750945036","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/italian-cinema-from-the-silent-screen-to-the-digital-image-9781441195616","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}