Author: Pacifici SergioPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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A Guide to Contemporary Italian Literature
Author: Pacifici SergioPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Italian Neorealism
Author: Mark ShielPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231850298
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the roots and causes of neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and style, Mark Shiel examines the portrayal of the city and the legacy left by filmmakers such as Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti. Films studied include Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948), and Umberto D. (1952).
The Oxford Illustrated History of Italy
Author: George HolmesPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192854445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Traces the history of Italy from the Roman Empire to the present, and examines the connections between Italian society, politics, and culture.
Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation
Author: Robin HealeyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802008008
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.
Cassell Dictionary Italian Literature
Author: Peter BondanellaPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0304704644
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
From Street to Screen
Author: Michael T. MartinPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253049539
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines harsh images of the banality of everyday oppression with scenes of lyrical beauty, and depictions of stark realism with flights of comic fancy. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep is the first book-length collection dedicated to the film and designed to introduce viewers to this still relatively unknown masterpiece. Beginning life as Burnett's master's thesis project in 1973, and shot on a budget of $10,000, Killer of Sheep immediately became a cornerstone of the burgeoning movement in African American film that came to be known variously as the LA School or LA Rebellion. By bringing together a wide variety of material, this volume covers both the politics and aesthetics of the film as well as its deeper social and contextual histories. This expansive and incisive critical companion will serve equally as the perfect starting point and standard reference for all viewers, whether they are already familiar with the film or coming to it for the first time.
Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation
Author: Robin HealeyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487531907
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.
Italian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present
Author: Maria MarottiPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271041250
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2140
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On the Edge of Democracy
Author: Rosario ForlenzaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192549588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
On the Edge of Democracy examines the emergence of democracy in Italy in the wake of World War Two. It examines the nature of the democracy forged in the liminal period after Benito Mussolini, the Duce of Fascism, was removed from government in the summer of 1943. Instead of pouring through institutional accounts, which root the origins of democracy in the establishment of parties and in electoral outcomes, Forlenza focuses on the lived experiences of ordinary people and elites in extraordinary times. Meanings of democracy are not variations of a universal model but emerge as contingent interpretative acts and a symbolization following political and existential crisis under condition of violence and war. On the Edge of Democracy captures a series of key events which saw people torn between going home or staying at the front, between clinging to a disrespected but habitual monarchy or engaging with a republican experiment. Becoming a democracy was also a kind of politically spiritual act: the power of the myth of America and the struggle for order as a function of the cosmic fight between communism and ant-communism in the incipient Cold War had a formative power on the origins, meanings, and characters of post-fascist democracy in Italy.