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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 June 2011
      13 April 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511624377
      9780521649773
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511624377
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 460 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication
      Series:
      National Film Traditions
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    Subjects:
    Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication
    Series:
    National Film Traditions
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    Italian Film examines the extraordinary cinematic tradition of Italy, from the silent era to the present. Analyzing film within the framework of Italy's historical, social, political, and cultural evolution during the twentieth century, Marcia Landy traces the construction of a coherent national cinema and its changes over time. Examining the cinematic uses of landscape, architecture, regional, rural, and metropolitan locales, and representations of social customs and rituals, Landy also discusses genres, stars, narrative and anti-narrative forms. This study traces how social institutions as well as Italian notions of masculinity and femininity are dealt with in cinema and how they are central to the conceptions (and misconceptions) of national identity. It also demonstrates the vital links between Italian film and other art forms, including opera, popular music, literature, and painting. A comprehensive survey of this subject, Italian Film also offers fresh readings of key films from each period surveyed.

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