Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century
This is the first English- language anthology on experimental and independent Italian cinema. Providing an overview of the legacies and transformations of Italian vanguard practices of moving images, the book also explores the historical and sociocultural milieus, the individual artists and filmmakers, and the original work peculiar to Italian stock. Outlining the individual movements, the diverse film artists (from the last century and into the twenty-first), the book pays particular attention to the underground and independent practices of the 1960s and 1970s onwards, and includes an enlightening overview of Italian 'family films', as well as studies of contemporary champions of independent practices of documentary and narrative cinema.
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Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century
This is the first English- language anthology on experimental and independent Italian cinema. Providing an overview of the legacies and transformations of Italian vanguard practices of moving images, the book also explores the historical and sociocultural milieus, the individual artists and filmmakers, and the original work peculiar to Italian stock. Outlining the individual movements, the diverse film artists (from the last century and into the twenty-first), the book pays particular attention to the underground and independent practices of the 1960s and 1970s onwards, and includes an enlightening overview of Italian 'family films', as well as studies of contemporary champions of independent practices of documentary and narrative cinema.
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Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century

Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century

Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century

Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century

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This is the first English- language anthology on experimental and independent Italian cinema. Providing an overview of the legacies and transformations of Italian vanguard practices of moving images, the book also explores the historical and sociocultural milieus, the individual artists and filmmakers, and the original work peculiar to Italian stock. Outlining the individual movements, the diverse film artists (from the last century and into the twenty-first), the book pays particular attention to the underground and independent practices of the 1960s and 1970s onwards, and includes an enlightening overview of Italian 'family films', as well as studies of contemporary champions of independent practices of documentary and narrative cinema.

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ISBN-13: 9781474474030
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 07/22/2020
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Dr Anthony Cristiano is Lecturer in Digital Media and Journalism at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Dr Carlo Coen is Course Director in the Department of Languages, Literature and Linguistics at York University, Toronto

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Filmmaker and the Milanese independent cinema of the 1980s and 1990sDonatella Maraschin and Paola Nasini

Chapter 2: Light and Liminal: Marinella Pirelli’s CinemaMatilde Nardelli

Chapter 3: From Vertov to Cine-Journals: Cesare Zavattini’s Experimental JourneyCarlo Coen

Chapter 4: Gianfranco Brebbia. The ‘Absurd’, Expanded Quality of Experimental Cinema (1962-1973)Donatella Valente

Chapter 5: Italian Family Films: The Case of the Archivio Nazionale di BolognaLaura Ceccarelli

Chapter 6: Travelling the world. The essay films of Massimo Bacigalupo (1968-1977)Donatella Valente

Chapter 7: Tales of Courage: Trade Stories of Italian Independent CinemaEdward Bowen

Chapter 8: Independence as Opposition? Redefining Political Cinema through the Case of Mirko LocatelliGloria Dagnino

Chapter 9: Niccolò Bruna’s Ethical Process as Social Engagement: Upholding Human Stories against a Backdrop of GlobalizationDavid H. Fleming and Filippo Gilardi

Chapter 10: The Paradox of ‘Independence’ in Cyberspace: The Case of Italian Experimental and Independent CinemaAnthony Cristiano

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Patrick Rumble

Offering one of the first sustained investigations of Italian experimental and avant-garde cinema in English, this volume presents the research of leading specialists into the history, theory and practice of independent filmmaking in Italy. It is an essential and long-awaited contribution to our knowledge of this fascinating area of audio-visual experimentation in 20th- and 21st-Century Italian cinema.

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