Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-423) and index.
Contents:
Viva la liberta: language, politics and consensus Giancarlo Lombardi. Italian political cinema: the early masters Gaetana Marrone -- The new cinema of political engagement Christian Uva -- Before and after Silvio: a corpus for us all Nicoletta Marini-Maio -- Bound to care: gender, affect, and immigrant labour Anne O'Healy -- Italian documentaries and immigration Anita Angelone -- Documenting ecomafia Elena Past -- Noir style and political cinema Mary P. Wood -- Political/popular cinema Alan O'Leary -- The 'Great Beatuy', or form is politics Vito Zagarrio -- Gimme (tax) shelter: the politics of the production system Paolo Russo -- Marco Bellocchio and the "new" political cinema Ruth Glynn -- Guido Chiesa and postdern Impegno Cosetta Gaudenzi -- Fancesca Comencini: women outside the polis Laura di Bianco -- Marco Tullio Giordana's cinema and its civil enagement: truth does not play anyone's game Anna Paparcone -- Saina Guzzanti: transmediating cinema politico Marguerite Waller -- Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi's trilogy: Comizi d'amore in the Digital Age Clarissa Clo -- Daniele Luchetti as author of politics? Little teachers and modest lessons Simona Bondavalli -- Nanni Moetti by Nanni Moetti: the biopic as counter-history Marcia Landy -- Paolo Sorrentino: between engagement and savior faire Claudio Bisoni -- Daniele Vicari: the real is also human Monica Jansen -- Susanna Nicchiarelli's Cosmonauta: the space race, or when communist girls dreamed of the moon Nicoletta Marini-Maio -- Il divo: Palo Sorrention's spectacle of politics Pierpaolo Antonello -- Gomorra by Matteo Garrone:'La normalita dello sfacelo' Millicent Marcus -- Gianni Amelio's Lamerica and the national body politics Luca Caminati -- Nessuno mi puo giudicare: making over the prostitute from a post-feminist perspective Danielle Hipkins -- Mario Martone's Noi credevamo: history and fiction Gius Gargiulo -- Placido Rizzotto and Segreti di Stato: Italian investigative cinema and memory Giovanna de Luca -- La prima linea: film, terrorism, and the politics of funding Catherine O'Rawe -- Romanzo criminal as Mal Melodrama: 'it is in reality always too late' Dana Renga -- Tutta colpa di Giuda: performing captivity Ellen Nerenberg -- Viva la liberta: language, politics and consensus Giancarlo Lombardi.
Summary:
This book explores these political dimensions of contemporary Italian cinema by looking at three complementary strands: the thematics of contemporary political film from a variety of perspectives; the most prominent directors currently engaged in this filone; and case studies of the films that best represent this engagement. Conceived and edited by two Italian film scholars working in radically different academic settings, Italian Political Cinema brings together a wide array of critical positions and research from Italy, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.
Series:
Panoramas. Italian modernities, 2297-8410 ; vol. 1
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