The Cinema of Economic Miracles - Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film

"Theoretically sophisticated, politically astute, and historically informed, this is a brilliant work, one that will be a productive model for the future study of Italian cinema as well as the investigation of national cinema in general. There is no doubt that this is one of the best books ever written in English on Italian cinema, and by far the most theoretically advanced. Restivo's fascinating exploration of questions of subjectivity, space, and nation will be of great interest to scholars in fields beyond Italian cinema as well."--Peter Brunette, author of "Roberto Rossellini"

Sommario

Acknowledgments
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Part I: Neorealism and Nation

1. Writing the National Cinema

2. Neorealism and the Stain

Part II: The Nation, The Body, and Pasolini
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3. Tropes of Modernization: The Bandit and the Road

4. Spatial Transformations: Mapping the New Italy

5. Pasolini and the Limits of Resistance

Part III: Antonioni and the Postmodern Sublime

6. The Object Antonioni

7. The Sublime and the Disaster

Part IV: Boundaries

8. The Erotics of the Periphery

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Info autore

Angelo Restivo

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Angelo Restivo
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.02.2002
• EAN: 9780822327998
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2799-8
• Pagine: 224
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 226 mm x 17 mm
• Peso: 354 g
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto