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Praise for Italian Cinema: “Extremely interesting and stimulating.” ”Bernardo Bertolucci “A very good book and a very accurate one.” ”Federico Fellini “The librarian who does not get Bondanella immediately must be petitioned, picketed, importuned.” ”Choice “To measure the progress and development of Anglo-American studies on Italian cinema, one needs only to consider Peter Bondanella’s pioneering and seminal Italian Cinema: from Neorealism to the show more Present…Bondanella’s work carries the crucial merit of having opened up a panoramic view of Italian national cinema to Anglo-American film scholars who in general were mostly familiar with only a few masterpieces. Over the years, Bondanella’s systematic approach has enabled and inspired countless studies.” ”Gian Piero Brunetta, Professor of History and Film Criticism, University of Padua, Italy This new edition of the bestselling Italian Cinema examines films made from 1989 to the present as well as analyzing the earliest days of Italian filmaking. New coverage includes the Italian horror-film genre, Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty), Franco Zeffirelli (Tea with Mussolini), Michael Radford (The Postman [Il Postino]), Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo), Maurizio Nichetti (The Bicycle Thief), Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, The Starmaker), and much more. This fully revised and updated new edition includes: • All new notes • An extensive bibliography • DVD information show lessTags
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Bondanella's book is quite a thorough look at Italian cinema from the end of World War II until "the present." Of course, when I read it and used it in classes, "the present" was some time around 1984, almost 35 years ago. That leaves out many intervening years since then. Still, even if it has not been revised and updated, the original volume stands on its own merit. Bondanella is an informative and readable writer. And those two qualities rarely go together in academic film criticism.
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Peter Bondanella is the author of the groundbreaking Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present, Hollywood Italians and many other books and translations. He is presently Distinguished Professor of Italian, Indiana University.
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Art & Design
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- 791.430945 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography; description, critical appraisal of specific companies and studios {for specific films see 791.437} Europe Italy
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- PN1993.5 .I88 .B58 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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