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Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema : Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century / Anthony Cristiano, Carlo Coen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) : 59 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474474030
  • 9781474474054
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436110945 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Filmmaker and the Milanese Independent Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s -- 2 Light and Liminal: Marinella Pirelli’s Cinema -- 3 From Vertov to Cine-Journals: Cesare Zavattini’s Experimental Journey -- 4 Gianfranco Brebbia: The ‘Absurd’, Expanded Quality of Experimental Cinema (1962–73) -- 5 Italian Family Films: The Case of the Archivio Nazionale di Bologna -- 6 Independence as Opposition? Redefining Political Cinema Through the Case of Mirko Locatelli -- 7 Travelling the World: The Essay Films of Massimo Bacigalupo (1968–77) -- 8 Tales of Courage: Trade Stories of Italian Independent Cinema -- 9 Niccolò Bruna’s Ethical Process as Social Engagement: Upholding Human Stories against a Backdrop of Globalisation -- 10 The Paradox of ‘Independence’ in Cyberspace: The Case of Italian Experimental and Independent Cinema -- Index
Summary: Examines independent and experimental Italian cinema within its historical and cultural contextPlaces Italian independent and experimental film within the broader historical and cultural context of ItalyExamines film production contexts, film distribution and the impact of digital technology on Italian independnet and experimental filmmkaingIncludes extended case studies on the films Environmental Screen and Ghosts of San Berillo, and the work of the Studio Azzurro groupThis is the first English- language anthology on experimental and independent Italian cinema. Providing an overview of the legacies and transformations of Italian vanguard practices of moving images, the book also explores the historical and sociocultural milieus, the individual artists and filmmakers, and the original work peculiar to Italian stock. Outlining the individual movements, the diverse film artists (from the last century and into the twenty-first), the book pays particular attention to the underground and independent practices of the 1960s and 1970s onwards, and includes an enlightening overview of Italian ‘family films’, as well as studies of contemporary champions of independent practices of documentary and narrative cinema.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Filmmaker and the Milanese Independent Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s -- 2 Light and Liminal: Marinella Pirelli’s Cinema -- 3 From Vertov to Cine-Journals: Cesare Zavattini’s Experimental Journey -- 4 Gianfranco Brebbia: The ‘Absurd’, Expanded Quality of Experimental Cinema (1962–73) -- 5 Italian Family Films: The Case of the Archivio Nazionale di Bologna -- 6 Independence as Opposition? Redefining Political Cinema Through the Case of Mirko Locatelli -- 7 Travelling the World: The Essay Films of Massimo Bacigalupo (1968–77) -- 8 Tales of Courage: Trade Stories of Italian Independent Cinema -- 9 Niccolò Bruna’s Ethical Process as Social Engagement: Upholding Human Stories against a Backdrop of Globalisation -- 10 The Paradox of ‘Independence’ in Cyberspace: The Case of Italian Experimental and Independent Cinema -- Index

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Examines independent and experimental Italian cinema within its historical and cultural contextPlaces Italian independent and experimental film within the broader historical and cultural context of ItalyExamines film production contexts, film distribution and the impact of digital technology on Italian independnet and experimental filmmkaingIncludes extended case studies on the films Environmental Screen and Ghosts of San Berillo, and the work of the Studio Azzurro groupThis is the first English- language anthology on experimental and independent Italian cinema. Providing an overview of the legacies and transformations of Italian vanguard practices of moving images, the book also explores the historical and sociocultural milieus, the individual artists and filmmakers, and the original work peculiar to Italian stock. Outlining the individual movements, the diverse film artists (from the last century and into the twenty-first), the book pays particular attention to the underground and independent practices of the 1960s and 1970s onwards, and includes an enlightening overview of Italian ‘family films’, as well as studies of contemporary champions of independent practices of documentary and narrative cinema.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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