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  • Italian Neorealist Cinema

    An Aesthetic Approach

    by Christopher Wagstaff ...
    The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence on filmmakers around the world. Wagstaff treats these films as assemblies of sounds and images rather than as representations of historical reality. If Roberto Rossellini's Roma città aperta and Paisà, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Catching Light

    Collected Poems of Joanna McClure

    by Joanna McClure ...
    Series Book 6 - Io Poetry Series
    Joanna McClure's poems reveal the story of a central woman writer of the San Francisco Beat generation counterculture. Married to Beat poet Michael McClure soon after she arrived in San Francisco in 1954, Joanna McClure became a significant figure in the Beat poetry scene.Growing up on a ranch in the Arizona desert, Joanna developed early on a deep sensitivity to the beauty of nature. Her move to ... Read more

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  • Italo Calvino

    Letters, 1941–1985

    by Italo Calvino ...
    Translated by Martin McLaughlin ...
    The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. ... Read more

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  • Federico Fellini

    His Life and Work

    by Tullio Kezich ...
    A lively and authoritative journey into the world of a cinema masterWith the revolutionary 8 1/2, Federico Fellini put his deepest desires and anxieties before the lens in 1963, permanently impacting the art of cinema in the process. Now, more than forty years later, film critic and Fellini confidant Tullio Kezich has written the work by which all other biographies of the filmmaker are sure to be ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • A History of Italian Cinema

    by Dr Peter Bondanella, Professor Federico Pacchioni ...
    A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the bestselling Italian Cinema - which has been published in four landmark editions and will celebrate its 35th anniversary in 2018. Building upon decades of research, Peter Bondanella and Federico Pacchioni reorganize the current History in order to keep the book fresh and responsive not only to the actual ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Italian Neorealism

    Rebuilding the Cinematic City

    by Mark Shiel ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    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 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Federico Fellini

    Painting in Film, Painting on Film

    by Hava Aldouby ...
    Federico Fellini professed a desire to create “an entire film made of immobile pictures.” In this study, Hava Aldouby uses this quotation as a launching point to analyze Fellini’s films as sequences of “pictures” that draw extensively on art history, and particularly painting, as a reservoir of visual imagery. Aldouby employs an innovative pictorial approach that allows her to uncover a wealth of ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979

    by Roberto Curti ...
    Italian Gothic horror films of the 1970s were influenced by the violent giallo movies and adults-only comics of the era, resulting in a graphic approach to the genre. Stories often featured over-the-top violence and nudity and pushed the limits of what could be shown on the screen. The decade marked the return of specialist directors like Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda and Antonio Margheriti, and the ... Read more

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  • Italian National Cinema

    by Pierre Sorlin ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    From such films as La Dolce Vita and Bicycle Thieves to Cinema Paradiso and Dear Diary, Italian cinema has provided striking images of Italy as a nation and a people. In the first comprehensive study of Italian cinema from 1886-1996, Pierre Sorlin explores the changing relationship of Italian cinema and Italian society and asks whether the national cinema really does represent Italian interests ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The History of Futurism

    The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies

    by Günter Berghaus, Monica Biasiolo, Francesca Bravi, Sascha Bru, Silvia Contarini, Eleonora Conti, Patricia Gaborik, Laura Greco, Kyle Hall, Stefano Magni, Florian Mussgnug, Davide Podavini, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Beatrice Sica, Teresa Spignoli, Dirk Vanden Berghe, Federico Luisetti, Marjorie Perloff, Walter L. Adamson ...
    Futurism began as an artistic and social movement in early twentieth-century Italy. Until now, much of the scholarship available in English has focused only on a single individual or art form. This volume seeks to present a more complete picture of the movement by exploring the history of the movement, the events leading up to the movement, and the lasting impact it has had as well as the ... Read more

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  • Not Being God

    A Collaborative Autobiography

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, has always resisted autobiography. But in this intimate memoir, the voice of Vattimo as thinker, political activist, and human being finds its expression on the page. With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist, Vattimo reflects on a lifetime of politics, sexual radicalism, and philosophical exuberance in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Marco Bellocchio

    The Cinematic I in the Political Sphere

    by Clodagh Brook ...
    Marco Bellocchio is one of Italy's most important and prolific directors, with a career spanning five decades. In this book, Clodagh J. Brook explores the boundaries between the public and the private, the political and the personal, and the collective and the individual as they appear in Bellocchio's films. Including work on psychoanalysis, politics, film production, autobiography, and the ... Read more

    $33.09 USD