| Description |
1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Series |
Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series |
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Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Scola as Screenwriter and Director of Comedy Italian Style -- Thinking with His Hands: Ettore Scola's Narrative Intelligence as a Screenwriter and Compulsive Illustrator -- Visual Transitions in Ettore Scola's Comedies -- Premortem Identification of the Commedia all'italiana: The Grotesque in Scola's Comedy -- Part 2. History, Memory, and Critique of the Present |
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Semo giudii: Cinema, Metacinema, and the Holocaust in Scola's Roman Jewish Trilogy (with a Special Focus on the Fictional Short '43-'97) -- Ettore Scola and Digital Technology: History, Memory, and Interpretation of the Present -- The Three Figures of Nostalgia in Scola's Films -- La terrazza on the Circeo: Ettore Scola, Pasolini, and the Critique of the Roman Intelligentsia in Late 1970s Italy -- Part 3. Space and Place -- Italy Must Be Defended: Surveillance and Biopolitics in Una giornata particolare |
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Trevico-Torino: Viaggio nel Fiat-Nam: Metamorphoses of Urban Space and the Multiplication of the Factory in the Age of the Anthropocene -- Gente di Roma under the Effect of Federico Fellini's Rome -- Part 4. Scola and Politics -- Sentenced to Death: The Proto-Berlusconi of La più bella serata della mia vita -- Facing the Failure: Characters as Political Allegories in La terrazza -- Scola's Legacy: A Statesman for Italian Cinema -- Coda -- Dancing and Drinking with the Muses: The Cinema of Ettore Scola -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Brings to light Scola's cinematic style and contextualizes his commentary on Italian society and politics |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bowen, Edward
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Lanzoni, Rémi
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Comand, Mariapia
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Cilento, Fabrizio
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Marcus, Millicent
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Borrione, Francesca
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Uva, Christian
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Sorlin, Pierre
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| ISBN |
9780814343807 |
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0814343805 |
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