After Fellini - National Cinema in the Postmodern Age

Over the past twenty-five years, Italy's film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful. Despite these successes, Italian cinema is in a state of crisis: ticket sales for domestic films, which plummeted in the l980's, are only now beginning to recover; television deregulation has engendered a popular culture largely dependent on American programming; and the passing of an entire generation of brilliant auteurs--Rossellini, Viscounti, Pasolini, Antonioni, and Fellini--extinguished the revolutionary impulse which had characterized Italian filmmaking since the Second World War.In After Fellini, Millicent Marcus contends that in the late 1980s and 1990s, a new wave of Italian filmmakers has transcended these obstacles and reasserted Italy's importance in world cinema. Through in-depth critiques of such acclaimed films as The Last Emperor, Caro Diario, and Stolen Children, as well as the immensely popular Cinema Paradiso and Life Is Beautiful, Marcus details how today's auteurs have both reflected and resisted Italy's shifting social, political, and cultural identity, and created a body of work that signals a new beginning for Italian cinema.

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About the author

Millicent Marcus is Mariano DiVito Professor of Italian Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Director of the Center of Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Summary

Examines the Italian films of the last two decades of the 20th century which managed to transcend the decline of Italian cinema's prominence within the industry. The author interprets, in detail, a body of work which established an independent profile for the Italian cinema of the 80s and 90s.

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• Authors: Millicent Marcus, Millicent (Chair Marcus, Millicent (Mariano Divito Professor of Ita Marcus, Millicent (Mariano DiVito Professor of Italian Studies and Director of the Center of Italian Studies Marcus, Millicent Joy Marcus, Marcus Millicent
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2002
• EAN: 9780801868474
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-6847-4
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Italy, Films, cinema, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989