{"product_id":"the-transatlantic-gaze-italian-cinema-american-film-suny-series-in-italianamerican-culture-9781438450247","title":"The Transatlantic Gaze Italian Cinema American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Transatlantic Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Ann McDonald Carolan documents the sustained and profound artistic impact of Italian directors, actors, and screenwriters on American film. Working across a variety of genres, including neorealism, comedy, the Western, and the art film, Carolan explores how and why American directors from Woody Allen to Quentin Tarantino have adapted certain Italian trademark techniques and motifs. Allen''s \u003ci\u003eTo Rome with Love\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), for example, is an homage to the genius of Italian filmmakers, and to Federico Fellini in particular, whose \u003ci\u003eLo sceicco bianco\/The White Sheik\u003c\/i\u003e (1952) also resonates with Allen''s \u003ci\u003eThe Purple Rose of Cairo\u003c\/i\u003e (1985) as well as with Neil LaBute''s \u003ci\u003eNurse Betty\u003c\/i\u003e (2000). Tarantino''s \u003ci\u003eKill Bill\u003c\/i\u003e saga (2003, 2004) plays off elements of Sergio Leone''s spaghetti Western \u003ci\u003eC''era una volta il West\/Once Upon a Time in the West\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), a transatlantic conversation about the Western that continues in Tarantino''s Oscar-winning \u003ci\u003eDjango Unchained\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). Lee Daniels''s \u003ci\u003ePrecious\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) and Spike Lee''s \u003ci\u003eMiracle at St. Anna\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), meanwhile, demonstrate that the neorealism of Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, which arose from the political and economic exigencies of postwar Italy, is an effective vehicle for critiquing social issues such as poverty and racism in a contemporary American context. The book concludes with an examination of American remakes of popular Italian films, a comparison that offers insight into the similarities and differences between the two cultures and the transformations in genre, both subtle and obvious, that underlie this form of cross-cultural exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University Press of New York (SUNY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039718965591,"sku":"9781438450247","price":31.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-transatlantic-gaze-italian-cinema-american-film-suny-series-in-italianamerican-culture-9781438450247","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}