Grammar of Cinepoiesis - Poetic Cameras of Italian Cinema

This book explores the theoretical and practical modes of a cinema of poetry and examines how it breaks the convention of narrative in cinema.

List of contents

Chapter I Meter and Rhetoric: Leopardi's Poetry in Federico Fellini's La voce
della luna
Chapter II "Im-Signs" and Free Indirect Subjective
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Cinema of Poetry: Accattone and Mamma Roma

Chapter III Color and Focus: Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Deserto Rosso and Blow Up

Chapter IV Sound and Silence: Franco Piavoli's Il pianeta azzurro and Nostos

Chapter V Movement and Form: Matteo Garrone's Primo amore and Gomorra

Epilogue The Visual Power of Images

Appendix I An Interview with Franco Piavoli

Appendix II An Interview with Matteo Garrone

About the author

Silvia Carlorosi is adjunct professor at the City College of New York.

Summary

This book explores the theoretical and practical modes of a cinema of poetry and examines how it breaks the convention of narrative in cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Silvia Carlorosi, Carlorosi Silvia, Silvia Carloroski
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781498509862
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0986-2
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Cine-Aesthetics: New Direction; Cine-Aesthetics: New Direction; Cine-Aesthetics: New Directions in Film and Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Communications;Film Studies;Italian Cinema