Italian silent cinema : a reader / edited by Giorgio Bertellini.

Other author Bertellini, Giorgio, 1967-
Format Book
PublicationNew Barnet, Herts, U.K. : John Libbey Publishing Ltd, [2013]
Copyright Date©2013
Descriptionvi, 401 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Subjects
Motion pictures--Italy. --History.
Silent films--Italy. --History and criticism.
Motion picture industry--Italy. --History.

Contents Introduction : traveling lightness -- Part I. Methods and objects. Silent film historiography and Italian (film) historiography / Gian Piero Brunetta -- A brief cultural history of Italian film archives (1980-2005) / Paolo Cherchi Usai -- Part II. Italian silent cinema's visual cultures. 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 -- Part III. Production companies and contexts. The giant Ambrosio, or Italy's most prolific silent film company / Claudia Gianetto -- The "Pastrone system" : Itala 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 -- Part IV. Genres. 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 -- Part V. Cinematic words : on paper, on state, on screen. 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 -- Part VI. Circulation, exhibition, and reception. 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 -- Part VII. Research. Where can I find Italian silent cinema? / Ivo Blom -- Cinema on paper : researching non-filmic materials / Luca Mazzei -- Bibliographic appendix : film exhibition and spectatorship / by Paolo Caneppele.
General noteMost essays translated from Italian.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 339-369) and indexes.
LCCN 2013498159
ISBN9780861966707 (softcover)
ISBN0861966708 (softcover)