The Naples-born director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino has, to
date, written and directed nine films, winning an Oscar, a Bafta
and a Golden Globe for The Great Beauty in 2013. In 2016, he
created and directed his first TV series, The Young Pope, which
starred Jude Law. John Malkovich joined the cast in 2020 for the
follow-up series. He has established himself as a world-leading
auteur with a list of critically acclaimed and award-winning films.
This is an invaluable contribution to the existing literature on
Sorrentino and is the first English language collection dedicated
to this prolific director, who has emerged as one of the most
compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film.
International contributors from the UK, Italy, France, The
Netherlands, Australia, Israel, Canada and the United States,
Italy, Israel, France, UK, Australia, Canada, offer original
interpretations of Sorrentino's work. They examine his recurrent
grand themes of memory, nostalgia, ageing, love, thirst for
fulfilment, search for the self, identity crisis, human
estrangement, marginality, irony and power. In so doing, they offer
new perspectives and unique cues for discussion, challenging
established assumptions and interpretations. Important and current
themes such as eco-cinema and post-secularism are addressed as well
as the links between Sorrentino's highly visual cinema and artistic
practice such as painting and architecture. While there are several
books on Sorrentino available in Italian, none of these provide an
authoritative account of his work; and language has restricted the
readership. This is the first English-language collection focussed
on Sorrentino, arguably the most successful and significant
contemporary Italian filmmaker. The majority of the chapters
included in this new book are original and it also includes a
Foreword by Giancarlo Lombardi, Professor of Italian and
Comparative Literature at CUNY, and an interview with renowned
costume designer Carlo Poggioli, who has worked with Sorrentino on
many productions. Some of the chapters were previously published in
a special issue of the journal JICMS - The Journal of Italian
Cinema and Media Studies in 2019. The new collection makes a
significant coherent contribution to the field. Primary readership
will be academics, researchers and scholars of Italian film and
media studies. Also post-graduate students and upper level
under-graduates. Potential to be used as textbook or as
supplementary reading for undergraduate and graduate courses Given
the subject, there is a possibility for some crossover appeal to a
broader readership, but this is primarily a scholarly text.
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