| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 286 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour)) |
| Contents |
Introduction: For a New Ecology of the Gaze in Contemporary Italian Cinema -- Part I Travels, Paths, Narrations -- Exordium -- Petroculture, Southern Thought, and Itinerant Cinematic Resistance in Basilicata -- Southern Realities and Emotions: Francesco Rosi's Cultural Voyages -- Lucania, Land of Fairy Tales and Cinema: Gigi Roccati's -- Lucania and the Eco-Fairy-Tale Film -- Part II Places, Landscapes, Relations -- Exordium -- Basilicata Inside and Outside. Lucanian Landscape and Postwar Nonfiction Cinema -- The Aesthetics of Ghost Towns in Basilicata. Nicola Ragone’s Cinema Between Art, Ecology and Marginality -- Rewritings of the Meridian Landscape in Contemporary Italian Cinema -- Part III History, Memories, Identities -- Exordium -- Rocco e i suoi fratelli: Luchino Visconti’s Lucania Between Real and Imaginary -- Meridian Landscape and Documentary Image: Luigi Di Gianni’s Short Movies -- Isabella di Morra’s "Valle Inferna" Between Myth and Reality. About the Movie Sexum Superando -- Part IV Conflicts, Traumas, Reconstructions -- Exordium -- Wounded Realities: Remedial Gestures and Silence of the Myths in the Lucania of Nonfiction Cinema During the 1950s and the 1960s -- Southern Italy’s Petronarratives: A Few Notes on Contemporary Italian Ecodocumentaries -- Past and Future of a Region: Basilicata Through Documentary Cinema of the 1950s and 1960s -- Conclusion: Ecophilosophy and the Human/Nonhuman Relation in Michelangelo Frammartino’s Alberi -- Filmography -- Index |
| Summary |
Alberto Baracco is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Basilicata, Italy. His main research interests are film philosophy and film ecocriticism. His recent publications include the book Italian Experiences of Trauma through Film and Media (2022), and the monograph, Philosophy in Stan Brakhages Dog Star Man (2019). Manuela Gieri is Associate Professor at the University of Basilicata, Italy. Her main research interests are film history, contemporary Italian womens writing, and new historiography. Among her works, deserving special mention are Contemporary Italian Filmmaking: Strategies of Subversion (1995), Cinema. Dalle origini allo studio system (1895-1945) (2009) |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ecology in motion pictures.
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Ecocriticism.
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Ecocriticism
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Ecology in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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| SUBJECT |
Basilicata (Italy) -- In motion pictures
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Italy, Southern -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001810
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Italy -- Basilicata
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Southern Italy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baracco, Alberto. editor.
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Gieri, Manuela. editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031135736 |
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3031135733 |
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