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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Italian cinema"”.
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Catholicism in Italian cinema in the age of ‘the new secularisation’ (1958-1978)
This thesis explores the portrayal of Italian Catholicism in five feature films: E venne un uomo (A Man Named John, dir. Ermanno Olmi, 1965), Galileo (1968, dir. Liliana Cavani), Teorema (Theorem, 1968, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini), Nel nome del padre (In the Name of the Father, 1972, dir. Marco …
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Catholicism in Italian cinema in the age of ‘the new secularisation’ (1958-1978)
This thesis explores the portrayal of Italian Catholicism in five feature films: E venne un uomo (A Man Named John, dir. Ermanno Olmi, 1965), Galileo (1968, dir. Liliana Cavani), Teorema (Theorem, 1968, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini), Nel nome del padre (In the Name of the Father, 1972, dir. Marco …
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The Way of All Flesh: A History and Historiography of Violence and Death in Italian Cinema (1943-1980)
This study narrates a history of Italian cinema from 1943 to 1980 by the light of its evolving imaginary of violence and death. As both lived and represented experience, the antifascist Resistance is the starting point whence we proceed to hypothesize that the history of such imaginary ran parallel …
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Storytelling in Modernist Fiction: A “Method of Presence”
… the relationship between narrative modes in cinema and literature and adopts the lineage laid out by Lukács that connects the oral tradition and epic poetry to the novel. I attach art cinema to this lineage and seek to justify its position as an equally significant medium representative of …
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State of distrust: interpreting 1970s Italy through the seriality of news media and the poliziottesco.
… perception of social reality. It analyses 1970s Italian police thrillers, the so-called poliziottesco, and argues that these films can be considered historical documents. Building on on-going debates on the poliziottesco (Bondanella, 2009; O’Leary, 2011; Marlow-Mann, 2013; Fisher 2014), this …
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Beyond “Brutality”: understanding the Italian Filone’s violent excesses
… to be one of the defining features of the Italian filoni; a body of popular genre film cycles (peplum mythological epics, horror films, giallo thrillers, poliziotteschi crime dramas, westerns and others) released during a frenzied period of film production between the late 1950s and mid …
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I testi della paura e dell'incubo
… rooted culture. In this historical frame, the Italian film industry becomes the most powerful and successful in Europe, starting a period of dominance and unparalleled growth that lasted almost twenty years. Genre films represent the backbone of the industry, and horror films, even though not …
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Paradigms of refuse: waste abjection and rejection in contemporary Italian literature and cinema
… refuse through close analysis of contemporary Italian literature and cinema, I expose not only the detrimental impact of the human over the environment, but also the ways in which the human/non-human remnants of our consumer culture can be approached in transformative ways as instruments of …