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  • Tonino Valerii

    The Films

    de Roberto Curti ...
    Tonino Valerii is one of Italy's best genre film directors. Starting out as Sergio Leone's assistant on For a Few Dollars More (1965), he went on to direct spaghetti westerns that stand out among the most accomplished in their class--Day of Anger (1967), The Price of Power (1969), A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die! (1972) and My Name Is Nobody (1973). He also directed the outstanding giallo My ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Mavericks of Italian Cinema

    Eight Unorthodox Filmmakers, 1940s-2000s

    de Roberto Curti ...
    The history of Italian cinema includes, in addition to the renowned auteurs, a number of peculiar and lesser-known filmmakers.While their artistry was often plagued with production setbacks, their works--influenced by poetry, playwriting, advertising, literature, comics and a nonconformist, sometimes antagonistic attitude--were original and thought provoking.Drawing from official papers and ... Leer más

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  • Proibito!

    A History of Italian Film Censorship, 1913-2021

    de Roberto Curti ...
    From its birth in 1913 to its abolition in 2021, film censorship marked the history of Italian cinema, and its evolution mirrored the social, political, and cultural travail of the country. During the Fascist regime and in the postwar period, censorship was a powerful political tool in the hands of the ruling party; many films were banned or severely cut. By the end of the 1960s, censors had to ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Elio Petri

    Investigation of a Filmmaker

    de Roberto Curti ...
    Elio Petri (1929-1982) was one of the most commercially successful and critically revered Italian directors ever. A cultured intellectual and a politically committed filmmaker, Petri made award-winning movies that touched controversial social, religious, and political themes, such as the Mafia in We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), police brutality in Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970 ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Riccardo Freda

    The Life and Works of a Born Filmmaker

    de Roberto Curti ...
    In an eclectic career spanning four decades, Italian director Riccardo Freda (1909-1999) produced films of remarkable technical skill and powerful visual style, including the swashbuckler Black Eagle (1946), an adaptation of Les Miserables (1947), the peplum Theodora, Slave Empress (1954) and a number of cult-favorite Gothic and horror films such as I Vampiri (1957), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Bracali and the Revolution in Tuscan Cuisine

    de Roberto Curti ...
    A self-taught culinary virtuoso, Francesco Bracali is one of Italy's top chefs. He and his brother, Luca, a sommelier, own the two-Michelin-stars restaurant Bracali in Massa Marittima, Tuscany. Once an unpretentious tavern run by their parents, the brothers turned it into a fine dining place where they revisited the region's rich gastronomic traditions in an innovative way.Their revolutionary ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Italian Giallo in Film and Television

    A Critical History

    de Roberto Curti ...
    Since the release in 1929 of a popular book series with bright yellow covers, the Italian word giallo (yellow) has come to define a whole spectrum of mystery and detective fiction and films. Although most English speakers associate the term giallo with the violent and erotic thrillers popular in the 1960s and 1970s from directors like Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and others, the term ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989

    de Roberto Curti ...
    The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda dying or retiring and young filmmakers such as Lamberto Bava (Macabro, Demons) and Michele Soavi (The Church) surfacing.Horror films proved commercially successful in the first half of the decade thanks to Dario Argento (both as director and producer) and Lucio Fulci, but the ... Leer más

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  • Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957-1969

    de Roberto Curti ...
    The "Gothic" style was a key trend in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s because of its peculiar, often strikingly original approach to the horror genre. These films portrayed Gothic staples in a stylish and idiosyncratic way, and took a daring approach to the supernatural and to eroticism, with the presence of menacing yet seductive female witches, vampires and ghosts. Thanks to such ... Leer más

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  • Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980

    de Roberto Curti ...
    In 1970s Italy, after the decline of the Spaghetti Western, crime films became the most popular, profitable and controversial genre. In a country plagued with violence, political tensions and armed struggle, these films managed to capture the anxiety and anger of the times in their tales of tough cops, ruthless criminals and urban paranoia. Recent years have seen renewed critical interest in the ... Leer más

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  • Visioni proibite

    I film vietati dalla censura italiana (dal 1969 a oggi)

    de Roberto Curti, Alessio Di Rocco ...
    Series Libro 2 - Visioni proibite
    Il ’68 e tutto ciò che da esso è nato – la controcultura, il pacifismo, la rivoluzione dei costumi, la sessualità libera – hanno cambiato profondamente il cinema. Il mondo aveva fame di emozioni forti, di dissacrazione, di trasgressione e il cinema, in un certo senso, si incaricò di soddisfare questa esigenza. Ma il ’68 non riuscì a cambiare la censura, almeno in Italia. Nonostante non potesse ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD