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The Montesi Scandal - The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome (Hardcover, 2nd ed.) Loot Price: R850
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The Montesi Scandal - The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)

Karen Pinkus

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Early on a windy morning in April 1953, the body of a young woman washed up on a beach outside of Rome. Her name was Wilma Montesi, and, as the papers reported, she had left her home in the city center a day earlier, alone. The police called her death an accidental drowning. But the public was not convinced. In the cafes around the Via Veneto, people began to speak-of the son of a powerful politician, lavish parties, movie stars, orgies, drugs.
How this news item of everyday life exploded into one of the greatest scandals of a modern democracy is the story Karen Pinkus tells in "The Montesi Scandal. Wilma's death brought to the surface every simmering element of Italian culture: bitter aspiring actresses, corrupt politicians, nervous Jesuits in sunglasses, jaded princes. Italians of all types lined up to testify-in court or to journalists of varying legitimacy-about the death of the middle-class carpenter's daughter, in the process creating a media frenzy and the modern culture of celebrity. Witnesses sold their stories to the tabloids, only to retract them. They posed for pictures, pretending to shun the spotlight. And they in turn became celebrities in their own right.
Pinkus takes us through the alleys and entryways of Rome in the 1950s, linking Wilma's death to the beginnings of the dolce vita, now synonymous with modern Roman life. Pinkus follows the first paparazzi on their scooters as they shoot the protagonists and gives us an insider's view of the stories and trials that came to surround this lonely figure that washed up on the shores of Ostia. Full of the magnificent paparazzi photos of the protagonists in the drama and film stills from the era's landmark movies, "TheMontesi Scandal joins true crime with "high" culture in an original form, one true to both the period and the cinematic conception of life it created. More than a meditation of the intricate ties among movies, paparazzo photography, and Italian culture, "The Montesi Scandal narrates Wilma's story and its characters as the notes for an unrealized film, but one that, as the reader discovers, seems impossible to produce.

General

Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2003
First published: May 2003
Authors: Karen Pinkus
Dimensions: 225 x 187 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Edition: 2nd ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66848-2
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
Books > History > General
LSN: 0-226-66848-7
Barcode: 9780226668482

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