Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film, A
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1421411660
ISBN 13
0884503854946
Category
Film Criticism
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Publication Year
2014
Publisher
Pages
232
Subject
Motion pictures -- Italy -- Aesthetics. Motion pictures -- Italy -- History. Motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
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Abstract
Brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understanding of aesthetic questions that stretch back to Homer.
Description
Contents:
Part 1. Neorealist rhetoric and national identity --
The chorus of neorealism --
Beyond beauty: cinematic allegory and the question of Italy --
Part 2. Cinemas of poetry --
Rossellini's cinema of poetry: voyage to Italy --
Poesis in Pasolini: theory and practice --
Part 3. Aesthetic corsi and ricorsi --
Threat of the real: fact and image in Antonioni --
Chiasmus, Italian style: rhetoric and ideology in the leopard and the conformist --
Verbal montage and visual apostrophe: Zanzotto's "Filo" and Fellini's Voice of the moon --
Epilogue: Art film redux: cine-poetics in the new millennium.
Part 1. Neorealist rhetoric and national identity --
The chorus of neorealism --
Beyond beauty: cinematic allegory and the question of Italy --
Part 2. Cinemas of poetry --
Rossellini's cinema of poetry: voyage to Italy --
Poesis in Pasolini: theory and practice --
Part 3. Aesthetic corsi and ricorsi --
Threat of the real: fact and image in Antonioni --
Chiasmus, Italian style: rhetoric and ideology in the leopard and the conformist --
Verbal montage and visual apostrophe: Zanzotto's "Filo" and Fellini's Voice of the moon --
Epilogue: Art film redux: cine-poetics in the new millennium.
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