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Title: Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present by Peter E. Bondanella ISBN: 0826412475 Publisher: Continuum Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: With a select bibliography on the Italian Cinema
Comment: Now in an expanded and fully updated third edition, Peter Bondanella's Italian Cinema From Neorealism To The Present continues to be the premier single volume reference to Italian films available to an English readership. From the silent movie era and the fascist period, through the various masters of neorealism, down to the present day, this comprehensive reference is an essential, core addition to any personal, professional, or academic film reference library. Of special interest are the select bibliography on the Italian Cinema, the information on locating Italian films on videocassette and DVD, and a comprehensive index.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Extraordinary Panoramic Postcard of Italian Cinema
Comment: Bondanella offers a superb overview of the Italian national cinema, and explains the central contribution of Italian auters and artists to this quintessentially 20th Century artform. With encyclopedic sweep, the reader is served bite-sized portions of every major Italian film in a series of full-length chapters. The narrative is crisp and well-paced. The morsels may be bite-sized, but in the end, the reader is treated to an enormous feast of gourmet cinema.
Organized in a roughly chronological framework, Bondanella takes us from the humble beginnings of cinema in the Italian peninsula through to the present day. The discussion of the Neorealist moment, for example, traces the artistic and social roots of the movement, and touches upon it's profound (and continuing) influence within Italy and around the world. The 3rd Edition revises some of the text, and updates the final chapters on the most recent developments in Italian filmmaking.
The discussion is organized most often as a series of capsules addressing nearly every major Italian film. The result is a combination between historical exposition and film encyclopedia. I haved repeatedly turned to Bondanella's book to gain a quick insight or two into a film I may be lucky enough to be able to rent, see in one of New York's innumerable film venues, or catch on cable. Professor Bondanella could have possibly done more at times to explain the context in which these films were made. The political and social backdrop of the Italian peninsula has been an important determinant of the artistic output of it's people. It is not that these details are ignored --- in fact they are very well represented at many points in the narrative, and much more detail in a volume as compact as this one would likely have undermined the project as a whole --- but the reader may need to consult other sources at times to gain a more contextualized understanding or to clear up a confusing point here and there.
But this criticism should be made with a caveat. Bondanella sets out to provide the reader with a coherent narrative of the breathtaking accomplishments in film art in Italy. He succeeds in that task brilliantly. The panorama of 20th Century Italian film presented is as awe-inspiring as the most idyllic Tuscan villa or the Alpine vistas of the Alto-Adige. Reader's wishing to gain an appreciation of the central importance of Italian cinema will not be disappointed.
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Title: Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism by Millicent Joy Marcus, Milicent Marcus ISBN: 0691102082 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Italian Film by Marcia Landy ISBN: 0521649773 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt) Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Cinema of Anxiety: A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism by Vincent F. Rocchio ISBN: 0292771010 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Antonioni, Or, the Surface of the World by Seymour Benjamin Chatman ISBN: 0520053419 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1985 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni by Peter Brunette ISBN: 0521389925 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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