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Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema
Author(s): Luca Barattoni (Author)
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date: 16 Oct. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 0748640541
- ISBN-13: 9780748640546
Book Description
This title explores the wealth of Italian Cinema from the mid-50s to the end of the 60s. Unlike France, the Czech Republic or Brazil, Italy did not have a new wave properly understood as a movement. However, while new artistic schools were emerging in many other countries, Italy was undergoing its most dramatic social and economic transformations. Those violent changes, together with the perceived necessity of renewing the aesthetic heritage of Neorealism, sparked a drastic regeneration of the cinematic language and marked the most memorable period of Italian film history. Luca Barratoni explores the ferments of Italian cinema from the mid-50s to the end of the 60s, situating its wealth in the context of other national cinemas emerging at the same time. Olmi, Pasolini, Antonioni, Fellini, Visconti, the Taviani Brothers, Cavani, Rosi, Ferreri and many others all made their debut or directed their most representative works during the period. The book brings to the surface the lines of experimentation and artistic renewal appearing after the exhaustion of Neorealism, mapping complex areas of interest such as the emergence of ethical concerns, the relationship between ideology and representation, and the role of Italian counter-culture.
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Traditions in World Cinema General Editors: Linda Badley and R. Barton Palmer Founding Editor: Steven Jay Schneider This series introduces diverse and fascinating movements in world cinema. Each volume concentrates on a set of films from a different national, regional or, in some cases, cross-cultural cinema which constitute a particular tradition. Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema Luca Barattoni Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema establishes twenty-five years of Italian pictures as a formal and aesthetic continuum characterized by an explicitly modernist sensitivity. The book links the emergence of Neorealism with a broader reflection on and negotiation of modernity, one in which cinema emerges as a medium capable of granting a different experience of reality, with the intention of plugging cultural and identitarian gaps. Previously distinct categories such as ‘the heroic phase of Neorealism’, ‘the Internationalist auteurs’, ‘the New Italian Wave’ and ‘comedy Italian style’ are reconfigured through Barattoni’s innovative approach, underscoring the realist-modernist dialogue in the hierarchy of the image and the foundational nature of the new cinema. Essential reading for all students of Italian film, this book will also appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students in Film Studies. Luca Barattoni is Assistant Professor of Italian at Clemson University. Cover design: Cover image: Io La Conosceno Bene, Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965 (c) Reporters Associati/Archivio Storico del Cinema/AFE. [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com
About the Author
Dr Luca Barattoni is an Assistant Professor of Italian at Clemson University (US).
