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Author Carlorosi, Silvia, 1975- author.

Title A grammar of cinepoiesis : poetic cameras of Italian cinema / Silvia Carlorosi
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 189 pages)
Series Cine-aesthetics: new directions in film and philosophy
Contents Introduction: The Grammar of Cinepoiesis. How does a Poetic Camera Work? -- Meter and Rhetoric: Leopardi's poetics in Federico Fellini's La voce della luna -- Im-Signs and Free Indirect Subjective: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Cinema of Poetry: Accattone and Mamma Roma -- Color and Focus: Michelangelo Antonioni's Il deserto rosso and Blow-Up -- Sound and Silence: Franco Piavoli's Il pianeta azzurro and Nostos -- Movement and Form: Matteo Garrone's Primo amore and Gomorra -- Epilogue: The Visual Power of Images
Summary A unique contribution to the fields of film studies and critical and cinematic theory, A Grammar of Cinepoiesis explores the theoretical and practical modes of a cinema of poetry and examines how it breaks the convention of narrative in cinema. Carlorosi demonstrates how cinema of poetry is able to open a dialogue between author, text, and viewers, while cinematic authors, like poietes (poets), bring to life multiple possible worlds
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180) and index
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Subject Motion pictures -- Italy -- History
Motion picture producers and directors -- Italy -- Interviews
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
Italy
Genre/Form History
Interviews
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020739493
ISBN 9781498509855
1498509851