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Many of Italy's current problems can be traced back to the years
1948-1958, one of the most interesting but least-studied periods of
recent Italian history. This was a decade in which the main
cultural and political parameters of contemporary Italy were laid
down. It was a time of enormous intellectual and artistic vitality,
and a period in which the tensions generated by the Cold War
affected the country to a greater degree than in any other western
nation.
This first general survey of the period provides an overview of the
political and economic position of Italy during the Cold War as
well as an assessment of the affect of the Cold War on
intellectual, cultural and artistic life. Distinguished scholars
from a range of disciplines present case-histories on subjects as
diverse as:
- the state's attitude towards the evolution of the family;
- the American presence in the Italian economy; and
- the place of the Italian film in world cinema.
- Italy's attitude towards the EEC and its relationship with NATO
Students and specialists who wish to enhance their understanding of
Italian current affairs will find this interdisciplinary approach
to the period invaluable.
"an important addition to scholarship on Italian history, politics
and social anthropology, as well as a contribution to our
understanding of the Italian concept of regionalism from different
perspectives. ...] From an anthropological point of view, this
reader may represent a landmark for future case studies on the ways
in which the ideologies of the autonomist movements are received
and interpreted by the people involved." --Journal of Cambridge
Anthropology
"an interesting book which will be appreciated by political
scientists and political sociologists in search of longitudinal
perspectives, and by all readers who believe in interdisciplinary
work." --South European Society and Politics
Christopher Duggan Reader in Italian History and Director of the
Centre for the Advanced Study of Italian, University of Reading
Christopher Wagstaff Christopher Wagstaff, Senior Lecturer in
Italian Studies, University of Reading
The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist
film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff
analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence
on filmmakers around the world. Wagstaff treats these films as
assemblies of sounds and images rather than as representations of
historical reality. If Roberto Rossellini's Roma citt aperta and
Pais , and Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette are still, half a
century after they were made, among the most highly valued
artefacts in the history of cinema, Wagstaff suggests that this
could be due to the aesthetic and rhetorical qualities of their
assembled narratives, performances, locations, lighting, sound,
mise en sc ne, and montage. This volume begins by situating
neorealist cinema in its historical, industrial, commercial and
cultural context, and makes available for the first time a large
amount of data on post-war Italian cinema. Wagstaff offers a
theoretical discussion of what it means to treat realist films as
aesthetic artefacts before moving on to the core of the book, which
consists of three studies of the films under discussion. Italian
Neorealist Cinema not only offers readers in Film Studies and
Italian Studies a radically new perspective on neorealist cinema
and the Italian art cinema that followed it, but theorises and
applies a method of close analysis of film texts for those
interested in aesthetics and rhetoric, as well as cinema in
general.
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