Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema

Gino Moliterno (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

750 Seiten

2020 | Second Edition
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1947-1 (ISBN)

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Italian cinema is now regarded as one of the great cinemas of the world. Historically, however, its fortunes have varied. Following a brief moment of glory in the early silent era, Italian cinema appeared to descend almost into irrelevance in the early1920s. A strong revival of the industry which gathered pace during the 1930s was abruptly truncated by the advent of World War II. The end of the war, however, initiated a renewal as films such as Roma città aperta (Rome Open City), Sciuscià (Shoeshine, 1946), and Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1948), flagbearers of what soon came to be known as Neorealism, attracted unprecedented international acclaim and a reputation that only continued to grow in the following years as Italian films were feted worldwide. Ironically, they were celebrated nowhere more than in the United States, where Italian films consistently garnered the lion's share of the Oscars, with Lina Wertmüller becoming the first woman to ever be nominated for the Best Director award.

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on major movements, directors, actors, actresses, film genres, producers, industry organizations and key films. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Italian Cinema.

Gino Moliterno is former head of the Film and New Media Studies Program at the Australian National University. Among his publications are the Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture (general editor and contributor, 2000), an English edition of Giordano Bruno's Candelaio (Candlebearer, 2000), the Scarecrow Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema (2008) and (co-authored) Celluloid Immigrant: Italian Australian Filmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele (2011).

Editor's Foreword (Jon Woronoff)

Preface

Acknowledgments

Reader's Note

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Chronology

Introduction

THE DICTIONARY

Appendix: Winners at the Venice Festival and of the David di Donatello and Nastri d'argento

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5381-1947-1 / 1538119471
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-1947-1 / 9781538119471
Zustand	Neuware