Search results
People also ask
What is the cinema of Italy?
When did Italian cinema start?
When did movies come to Italy?
When did the Italian film industry start?
Between 1903 and 1909 the itinerant Italian cinema began assuming the characteristics of an authentic industry, led by four major organizations: Titanus (originally Monopolio Lombardo), the first Italian film production company; the largest and among the most famous film houses in Italy, founded by Gustavo Lombardo at Naples in 1904, Cines ...
- A Brief Contextual History of American and Italian Cinema
- Italian Neorealism: Rossellini, de Sica, Visconti
- The Continuation of The Golden Era and Surrealism: Fellini, Loren, Mastroianni
- The Dark Ages: Pier Paolo Pasolini – A Tortured Genius
- Italian Giallo and The Rise of Dario Argento: 180 Degrees from Neorealism
- The Emergence of Roberto Benigni in Post-Modern Italian Film
- Decades Ahead of Its Time: Italian Cinema’S Worldly Influence
American filmmaking is as much a vital industry, an integral mechanism of the economy as any industry. American cinema was built upon capitalism, and in a society promoting greed, Hollywood films have been historically money-driven. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, escapism was what sold the most tickets. Films like Scarface (1932) and Ki...
Italian Neorealism is regarded as the beginning of the Golden Era of Italian cinema. Inspired by the realist movement, its literary predecessor a generation prior, and coinciding with its literary revival, the prominent voice of which was novelist Italo Calvino (Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, The Path to the Nest of Spiders,1947), Neorealism was a ...
With a total of 12 Academy Award nominations, Federico Fellini is undoubtedly the most famous Italian director in the history of cinema. As Fellini studied under Rossellini, he developed his own style, eventually transitioning from a screenwriter to a director in the 1950s. He wrote and directed several Oscar-nominated films, including I Vitelloni ...
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s work as a filmmaker in the modern period of Italian cinema is not by any means a “dark ages” period in the sense of losing one’s art, knowledge, and culture, but, contextually, it is one of Italy’s most unpalatable cinematic movements. Filled with violence, hyper-sexualization, rape, sodomy, and everything in between, Pasolini...
Perhaps a more palatable portrayal of violence emerged through the Italian Giallo sub-horror genre. For years, Italian films had contained essential elements of cinematic horror, mostly through their reflection of real-life events, but Giallo was the first official Italian horror movement that took the world by storm. Its founder, Dario Argento, be...
Though Argento was cheeky enough to poke fun at himself and his own genre in all of his films, there was a comedy heavily lacking in Italian cinema until the arrival of comedian and actor Roberto Benigni. Benigni was an international star, especially in America (ironically, despite being a communist party supporter). He drew worldwide attention wit...
Benigni wasn’t by any means the first Italian star to break into the international spotlight. Italian culture has been a subject of American filmmaking for decades, but Italian filmmaking has influenced international cinema since its inception, particularly American filmmaking. Argento’s Giallo work in the 1970s directly influenced John Carpenter’s...
In March 1896 the first movies arrived in Rome, then in Milan, in Naples in April, in June in Livorno and in August in Bergamo, Ravenna and Bologna. In Pisa, the oldest and still operating Italian movie theatre, The Cinema Lumiere, was built in 1899.
May 13, 2024 · An introductory chapter offers a unique overview of the Italian cinema before 1942. It is followed by a full and profound discussion of neorealism in its heyday, its difficult aftermath in the fifties, the glorious sixties, and finally by an analysis of the contemporary cinematic crisis.
The Italian film industry, which has seen and lived through highs (too few) and lows (too many) in the last three decades, must now look to the golden years of the industry during the economic boom: the Second World War, the 1960s and 1970s, the films and styles of writers from Antonioni to Rossellini, Fellini to Visconti, of craftsmen from ...
Nov 14, 2014 · The history of Italian cinema: a guide to Italian film from its origins to the twenty-first century. Paolo Russo. Pages 179-182 | Published online: 14 Nov 2014. Cite this article. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2014.973705. Full Article. Figures & data. Citations. Metrics. Reprints & Permissions. Read this article. Click to increase image size.
Written by the foremost scholar of Italian cinema and presented here for the first time in English, this landmark book traces the complete history of filmmaking in Italy, from its origins in the silent era; through its golden age in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and its subsequent decline; to its resurgence today.
