Format:
1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857719785
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0857730444
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1283293188
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1848856083
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1848856075
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9781848856073
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9780755698424
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9781283293181
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9781848856080
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9780857719782
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9780857730442
,
9780857719782
Content:
11 -- Knives in the Dark: Gialli Thrillers12 -- A Funny Thing Happened: Italian Comedy; 13 -- Splats Entertainment: Italian Cinema Eats Itself; Bibliography and Sources; Index of Key Directors; Index of Film Titles.
Content:
Art and Artifice: An Introduction to Italian Cinema; Acknowledgements; 1 -- Hercules Conquers the Box Office: Mythological Epics; 2 -- Historical Escapades, High Seas and Low B's: Costume Adventures; 3 -- Fall of the Empire: Sword and Scandal Spectacles; 4 -- Tales from the Tomb: Gothic Horrors; 5 -- Battle of the Worlds: Science Fact and Fiction; 6 -- Via All'Italiana: Love and Death; 7 -- Shoot, Gringo .. -- Shoot!: Italian Westerns; 8 -- Passports to Hell: Euro Crime and Crimebusters; 9 -- Anarchy and Allegory: Political Cinema; 10 -- Mission Improbable: World War II Movies.
Content:
Italian filmmakers have created some of the most magical and moving, violent and controversial films in world cinema. During its twentieth-century heyday, Italy's film industry was second only to Hollywood as a popular film factory, exporting cinematic dreams with multinational casts to the world, ranging across multiple genres. 'Cinema Italiano' is the first book to discuss comprehensively and in depth this Italian cinema, both popular and arthouse. It is illustrated throughout with rare stills and international posters from this revered era in European cinema and reviews over 350 movies. How
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-299) and indexes
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848856073
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hughes, Howard Cinema Italiano : The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult London : I.B. Tauris, ©2011 ISBN 9781848856073
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755698424
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