Italy in Early American Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italy in Early American Cinema write by Giorgio Bertellini. This book was released on 2010. Italy in Early American Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Giorgio Bertellini traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic aesthetic—the picturesque. Once associated with landscape painting in northern Europe, the picturesque came to symbolize Mediterranean Europe through comforting views of distant landscapes and exotic characters. Taking its cue from a picturesque stage backdrop from The Godfather Part II, Italy in Early American Cinema shows how this aesthetic was transferred from 19th-century American painters to early 20th-century American filmmakers. Italy in Early American Cinema offers readings of early films that pay close attention to how landscape representations that were related to narrative settings and filmmaking locations conveyed distinct ideas about racial difference and national destiny.
The Cinema of Italy
The Cinema of Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cinema of Italy write by Giorgio Bertellini. This book was released on 2004. The Cinema of Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Giorgio Bertellini examines the historical and aesthetic connections of some of Italy's most important films with both Italian and Western film culture.
Early American Cinema
Early American Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early American Cinema write by Anthony Slide. This book was released on 1994. Early American Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a concise history of the American motion picture industry before 1920.
Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema
Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema write by Cristiano Anthony Cristiano. This book was released on 2020-07-06. Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discussing a variety of independent and experimental Italian films, this book gives voice to a critcically neglected form of Italian cinema. By examining the work of directors such as Marinella Pirelli, Mirko Locatelli and Cesrae Zavattini, the book defines, inspects and studies the cinematic panorama of Italy through a new lens. It thereby explores the character of independent films and their related practices within the Italian historical, cultural and cinematic landscape.
Napoli/New York/Hollywood
Napoli/New York/Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Napoli/New York/Hollywood write by Giuliana Muscio. This book was released on 2018-10-30. Napoli/New York/Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Napoli/New York/Hollywood is an absorbing investigation of the significant impact that Italian immigrant actors, musicians, and directors—and the southern Italian stage traditions they embodied—have had on the history of Hollywood cinema and American media, from 1895 to the present day. In a unique exploration of the transnational communication between American and Italian film industries, media or performing arts as practiced in Naples, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, this groundbreaking book looks at the historical context and institutional film history from the illuminating perspective of the performers themselves—the workers who lend their bodies and their performance culture to screen representations. In doing so, the author brings to light the cultural work of families and generations of artists that have contributed not only to American film culture, but also to the cultural construction and evolution of “Italian-ness” over the past century. Napoli/New York/Hollywood offers a major contribution to our understanding of the role of southern Italian culture in American cinema, from the silent era to contemporary film. Using a provocative interdisciplinary approach, the author associates southern Italian culture with modernity and the immigrants’ preservation of cultural traditions with innovations in the mode of production and in the use of media technologies (theatrical venues, music records, radio, ethnic films). Each chapter synthesizes a wealth of previously under-studied material and displays the author’s exceptional ability to cover transnational cinematic issues within an historical context. For example, her analysis of the period from the end of World War I until the beginning of sound in film production in the end of the 1920s, delivers a meaningful revision of the relationship between Fascism and American cinema, and Italian emigration. Napoli/New York/Hollywood examines the careers of those Italian performers who were Italian not only because of their origins but because their theatrical culture was Italian, a culture that embraced high and low, tragedy and comedy, music, dance and even acrobatics, naturalism, and improvisation. Their previously unexplored story—that of the Italian diaspora’s influence on American cinema—is here meticulously reconstructed through rich primary sources, deep archival research, extensive film analysis, and an enlightening series of interviews with heirs to these traditions, including Francis Coppola and his sister Talia Shire, John Turturro, Nancy Savoca, James Gandolfini, David Chase, Joe Dante, and Annabella Sciorra.
