Most essays translated from Italian. Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-369) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction : traveling lightness / Giorgio Bertellini -- Silent film historiography and Italian (film) historiography / Gian Piero Brunetta -- A brief cultural history of Italian film archives (1980-2005) / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Italy and pre-cinematic visual culture / Carlo Alberto Zotti Minici -- Photography and cinema, and vice versa / Giorgio Bertellini -- Visualizing the past : the Italian city in early cinema / Marco Bertozzi -- The giant Ambrosio, or Italy's most prolific silent film company / Claudia Gianetto -- The "Pastrone system" : Italia Film from the origins to World War I / Silvio Alovisio -- Rome's premiere film studio : Società Italiana Cines / Kim Tomadjoglou -- Milano Films : the exemplary history of a film company of the 1910s / Raffaele De Berti -- Southern (and southernist) Italian cinema / Giorgio Bertellini -- Italian cinema in the 1920s / Jacqueline Reich -- From wonder to propaganda : the technological context of Italian silent cinema / Luca Giuliani -- Non-fiction production / Aldo Bernardini -- In hoc signo vinces : historical films / Giuliana Muscio -- All the same or strategies of difference : early Italian comedies in international perspective / Ivo Blom -- The diva-film : context, actresses, issues / Angela Dalle Vacche -- Early Italian serials and (inter)national popular culture / Monica Dall'Asta -- Futurist cinema : ideas and novelties / Giovanni Lista -- Stracittà : cinema, rationalism, modernism, and Italy's "second futurism" / Leonardo Quaresima -- Istituto Nazionale Luce : a national company with an international reach / Pierluigi Erbaggio -- Film on paper : early Italian cinema literature, 1907-1920 / John P. Welle -- On the language of silent films in Italy / Sergio Raffaelli -- Famous actors, famous actresses : notes on acting style in Italian silent films / Francesco Pitassio -- "Our beautiful and glorious art lives" : the rhetoric of nationalism in early Italian film periodicals / John David Rhodes -- Italy's early film "theories" : borders and crossings / Francesco Casetti -- Disordered traffic : film distribution in Italy (1905-1930) / Chiara Caranti -- "Pictures from Italy" : Italian silent films in Britain, 1907-1915 / Pierluigi Ercole -- Research on local moviegoing : trends and future perspectives / Paolo Caneppele -- Where can I find Italian silent cinema? / Ivo Blom -- Cinema on paper : researching non-filmic materials / Luca Mazzei -- Bibliographic appendix : film exhibition and spectatorship / Paolo Caneppele.
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