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Comedy Italian Style: The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies de Rémi Fournier Lanzoni

Comedy Italian Style: The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies

Autor Rémi Fournier Lanzoni
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2009
This book explores the work of Dino Risi with The Easy Life (1962), The Monsters (1963), The New Monsters (1977), and Scent of a Woman (1974), Mario Monicelli with Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958), The Great War (1959), and Amici miei (1975), also Pietro Germi with Divorce Italian Style (1961), as well as filmmakers as disparate as Federico Fellini with Amarcord (1973), Ettore Scola with Down and Dirty (1976), Lina Wertmüller with Swept Away (1974), Luigi Comencini with The Scientific Cardplayer (1972) and many others. In addition the volume explains how the genre was able to reveal during two decades (1960s and 1970s) many acting talents and confirmed the future legacy of picturesque icons such as Alberto Sordi, Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini and Ugo Tognazzi, all of whom depicted the Italian resilience in the utmost idiosyncratic manner.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826418227
ISBN-10: 0826418228
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 52
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

A perfect companion to Bondanella, Italian Cinema (soon in a 25th anniversary edition), as well as Bondanella, Hollywood Italians. Comedy Italian Style looks at the satirical stereotypes with a fresh eye. It is a remarkably researched book, including interviews with Dino Risi et al., a different generation still alive--and in some cases, still at work. No one will have to write this book again, it is sui generis.

Cuprins

- PART ONE: BEFORE THE ADVENT OF THE COMMEDIA ALL'ITALIANA CHAPTER I: THE FORERUNNERS - The Origins of Italian Comedy- The Silent Era and the Prestige of Hollywood Comedies- The Prewar Era, Cinecittà and Telefoni Bianchi- The Marc'Aurelio and the New Screenwriters CHAPTER II: THE AGE OF NEOREALISMO ROSA - Neorealism and Neorealismo Rosa in Question- A Special Case in Italian Comedy: Totò- Differences between Commedia Italiana and Commedia all'italiana- The Forerunners of the Comedy Italian StylePART TWO: THE YEARS OF EUPHORIA AND THE COMMEDIA ALL'ITALIANA CHAPTER I: ITALIAN COMEDY IN THE 1960s - Italy During the Years of Economic Miracle- Italian Film Industry in the 1960s and State Censorship- The Art of Getting by and the Commedia all'italiana CHAPTER II: THE PROTAGONISTS OF THE NEW COMEDY STYLE - Dino Risi and the Art of Caustic Satire - Mario Monicelli and Historical Comedies- Regional Comedies Pietro Germi's Style- Alberto Lattuada: Between Versatile and Eclectic Comedy- The Newcomers to the Commedia: Antonio Pietrangeli and Elio PetriPART THREE: THE FINAL ACT OF THE COMMEDIA ALL'ITALIANA CHAPTER I: ITALIAN COMEDY IN THE 1970s - Italy During the Lead Years- Italian Film Industry in the 1970s - Ettore Scola and the Discourse of Cynicism - Marco Ferreri's Grotesque Style CHAPTER II: THE LAST PROTAGONISTS - Dino Risi: A Legacy in Evolution- Lina Wertmüller: When Humor challenges the Rules - Federico Fellini's Successful Return to Comedy- A Comedy of Frustrations: Franco Brusati- Luigi Zampa's Satirical Cinema- The Human Comedy of Alberto Sordi- Mario Monicelli and the Difficult Years - Luigi Comencini: the End of an EraABBREVIATIONS APPENDIX - Academy Awards- Cannes Film Festival - Venice Film Festival- David di Donatello- Nastri d'Argento- Italian Comedies at the Box OfficeNOTESSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

Recenzii

The so-called Comedy Italian Style has been, in a certain way, engendered by Neorealism, and is often considered a realistic comedy; but it was also a fusion of "bitter and sweet", a genre of entertaining films that at the same time told something on a particular moment about an Italian society in rapid transformation. This comedy Italian Style was able to reveal on the big screen the common denominator among Italians: their gift for improvisation, a gift to look at reality with a knowing smile, even as a comedic satire. Lanzoni's Comedy Italian Style offers a faithful and interesting portrait about a unique period in Italian cinema. --Dino Risi, Director of The Monsters, Scent of a Woman and A Difficult Life
The subject of this book is one of the most important in Italian film history. Commedia all'italiana was a series of comedy films based on farse that dealt with current events, not evasive, but with their bold humor very pointed about societal difficulties.   --Mario Monicelli, director of The Great War (La grande guerra) and Big Deal on Madonna Street (I soliti ignoti).