Comedy Italian Style: The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies - Rilegato

Lanzoni, Remi Fournier

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 082641821X ISBN 13: 9780826418210

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2009

Riassunto

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 withBig 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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Recensione:

"The so-called Comedy Italian Style has been, in a certain way, affiliated with Neorealism, and is therefore considered as realistic comedy. But it is also a fusion of bitterness and charm, a genre of entertaining films that at the same time told something, in a particular moment, about an Italian society in rapid transformation. It 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 smile." --Dino Risi"

L'autore:

Rémi Fournier Lanzoni, author of French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present, also published by Continuum International, teaches Italian at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 082641821X
• ISBN 13: 9780826418210
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 276