Mary Wood is Reader in European Cinema at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...The epic and the historical film have made regular appearances in charts of box-office popularity in Italy and this chapter will argue that the form that they take, and the historical periods that come and go in fashion, are indicative...
Mary Wood is Reader in European Cinema at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... length of early films had resulted in some strain in identifying new stories (Prolo 1951: 47). Early film companies used actors from local and/or dialect theatre, but only a few, such as Mary Cléo Tarlarini at Ambrosio, Letizia and Lydia...
Mary Wood is Reader in European Cinema at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... of Carmen’s character, combining ‘intelligence and independence, eroticism and sensuality’, which would appeal to a mass audience (Wood 1998: 293).
Arias from classic operas are integrated into a wide variety of Italian films, constantly...
Mary Wood is Reader in European Cinema at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... and as an early example of film noir. Although these categories seem on the surface to be mutually exclusive, they do in fact constitute the defining characteristics of Italian noir (Wood 2004). Based on James M. Cain’s book The Postman Always Rings...
Mary Wood is Reader in European Cinema at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... compositions) and decorative aspects of Baroque buildings (Wood 1998: 285). A Baroque visual excess represents the tension between power and order, and revolt and disorder. Internal conflicts are externalized. Omar Calabrese (1992: 25) provides...
Mary Wood is Reader in European Cinema at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
...This book has attempted to celebrate the richness of an incredibly productive national cinema. Conventional film criticism ignores the often very interesting work that art film directors had to accomplish to make films. All too frequently...
Mary Wood is Reader in European Cinema at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... and the authenticity of place and atmosphere (Wood 1998: 279–81). The opening shots of the Red Army riding through the snow to liberate the camp have an epic grandeur, recalling compositions from his earlier war film Uomini contro. Even...
Mary Wood is Reader in European Cinema at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... less, healthcare and education worse, social relations between the classes more antagonistic. Marco Risi has attempted in his films Mery per sempre (Forever Mary, 1989) and Ragazzi fuori (Street Boys, 1990) to draw attention to the dangers...
Mary Wood is Reader in European Cinema at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.
... the social realities of violent and marginalized male groups, such as Ultrà – Ultras (Some Lose, Some Die . . . Some Win) Ricky Tognazzi, 1991 – set amongst violent football gangs, Mery per sempre (Forever Mary, Marco Risi, 1989) and Ragazzi...
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