The Body in the Mirror : Shapes of History in Italian Cinema.

By:

Dalle Vacche, Angela

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (325 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400862542
140086254X
0691637547
9780691637549

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Body in the Mirror : Shapes of History in Italian Cinema.DDC classification:

791.43/658 20

LOC classification:

PN1993.5.I88

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Body in the Mirror -- Chapter One. Fascism before World War I, after World War I, and after World War II -- Chapter Two. Fascism after May 1968 -- Chapter Three. The Risorgimento before World War II -- Chapter Four. The Risorgimento after World War II -- Chapter Five. The Risorgimento after May 1968 -- Chapter Six. The Resistance after World War II and after May 1968 -- Chapter Seven. Antifascism after May 1968 -- Conclusion: Nouvelle Histoire, Italian Style -- Bibliography -- Index

Summary: This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci. Here is a new kind of film history--a nonlinear, intertextual approach that confronts the total story of the growth of a national cinema while challenging the traditional formats of general histories and period studies. Examining Italian silent films of the fascist era through neorealism to modernist filmmaking after May 1968, Angela Dalle Vacche reveals opera and the commedia dell'arte to be the strongest influences. As she pres.

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This rich, wide-ranging book explores Italy's national film style by relating it closely to politics and to the historicist thought of Croce, Gentile, and Gramsci. Here is a new kind of film history--a nonlinear, intertextual approach that confronts the total story of the growth of a national cinema while challenging the traditional formats of general histories and period studies. Examining Italian silent films of the fascist era through neorealism to modernist filmmaking after May 1968, Angela Dalle Vacche reveals opera and the commedia dell'arte to be the strongest influences. As she pres.

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