Italian Cinema

Italian film has always drawn on a wide range of popular themesfrom ancienthistory to the mafia the family the Risorgimento terrorism corruption andimmigrationa... » 

Italian film has always drawn on a wide range of popular themesfrom ancienthistory to the mafia the family the Risorgimento terrorism corruption andimmigrationand on an equally diverse range of film genres from comedy towesterns horror softporn epics and thrillers. Commercial constraints stateand European funding international competition as much as cultural andpolitical trends have all influenced the sort of films which get made andexported. Outlining the artistic cultural technical and commercial context offilm Italian Cinema presents a history from silent to contemporary film. Inaddition to illuminating the work of classic directors such as ViscontiFellini Rossellini Antonioni and Rosi the book also explores the interactionbetween art and popular cinema visual style and spectacle space andarchitecture gender representations and politics. «