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FILM POSTER CENSORSHIP by Maurizio Cesare Graziosi
FILM POSTER CENSORSHIP by Maurizio Cesare Graziosi The first decade of the twentieth century was the golden age of Italian cinema: more than 500 cinema theatres in the country, with revenues of 18 million lire. However, the nascent Italian “seventh art” had to immediately contend with morality, which protested against the “obsolete vulgarity of the cinema”. Thus, in 1913 the Giolitti government set up the Ufficio della Revisione Cinematografica (Film Revision Office). Censorship rhymes with dictatorship. However, during the twenty years of Italian Fascism, censorship was not particularly vigorous. Not out of any indulgence on the part of the black-shirted regime, but more because self-censorship is much more powerful than censorship. Therefore, in addition to the existing legislation, the Testo Unico delle Leggi di Pubblica Sicurezza (Consolidation Act on Public Safety Laws - R.D. 18 June 1931, n° 773) was sufficient. And so, as far as film poster censorship is concerned, the first record dates from the period immediately after the Second World War, in spring 1946, due to the censors’ intervention in posters for the re-release of La cena delle beffe (1942) by Alessandro Blasetti, and Harlem (1943) by Carmine Gallone. In both cases, it was ordered that the name of actor Osvaldo Valenti be removed, and for La cena delle beffe, the name of actress Luisa Ferida too. Osvaldo Valenti had taken part in the Social Republic of Salò and, along with Luisa Ferida, he was sentenced to death and executed on 30 April 1945. This, then, was a case which could be defined as a “censorship of purgation”. -
I Porti Di Capri* Ischia E Sorrento
i • Il r Unità / sabato 31 marzo 1979 napoli - Campania 7 PAG. 19 Indétta dalla federazione napoletana del PCI Non vi potranno attraccare i sette nuovi traghetti Caremar Manifestazione per la pace «troppo stretti» i porti Domani tutti al «fiorentini» di Capri* Ischia e Sorrento L'appuntamento ò per le ore 9,30 — L'incontro.è con le delegazioni straniere presenti Una denuncia avanzata dai marittimi della compagnia di navigazione pubblica - Rischiano di an al XV congresso — Prenotazioni per le diffusioni dell'« Unità » dei prossimi giorni dare in fumo un bel po' di miliardi - Gli errori compiuti nella costruzione del nuovo scalo caprese Si estende l'impegno delle sezioni di forze socialiste e progressiste nel mondo Di pari pa&>o alla mobilitazione per I iette nuovi traghetti che l'amministrazione non possa Napoli e della provincia per l'incontro verranno ribadite alla presenza di prò la manifestazione del Fiorentini cresce la Caiemar {.la società legio prescindere dal rendere sog di domani al Fiorentini. L'appuntamen tagonisti di lotte e movimenti di massa anche l'impegno dei compagni per la naie ui navigu/ioiiu del uol getto consultivo, di premi to è per le 9,30 al cinema napoletano, clic cercano di liberare i loro Paesi dal diffusione de l'Unità nei giorni del con foj ha acquistato dall'Italcan- nente interesse pubblico, la dove migliaia di compagni si stringe la soggezione imperialistica e dall'in gresso nazionale di Roma. Sono state tien di Li\ omo sono lioppo sua società di navigazione. ranno intorno alle delega/ioni dei par fluenia delle potenze straniere. -
THE MUSEUM of MODERN ART If WEST 53 STREET, NEW YORK 19, N
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART If WEST 53 STREET, NEW YORK 19, N. Y. TftfPHONI: CIRCLE 5-8900 FOR RELEASE: kl May 1, 1955 No SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS MUSEUM HOURS: ADMISSION: Weekdays 12 - 7 p.*.(») Adults 60fi Sundays 1 - 7 p.m. Children 20/£ Note: Full releases on each exhibition are available five days before the opening. Photographs are available on request, MAY OPENINGS AND EVENTS f May fc RODIN S MONUMENT TO BALZAC on view in the Museum garden. A gift to the Museum by friends of the late Curt Valentin. May 11 - Aug.7 THE NEW DECADE: 22 EUROPEAN PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS. 85 paintings and sculptures selected by Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Director of the Museum's Department of Painting and Sculpture. The exhibition will open concurrently with the Whitney Museum's exhibition: The New Decade: 35 American Painters and Sculptors.(Press preview: May 10 '- 1-5 p.m.) (third floor) May 17 & 18 ** THE STORY OF APU AND DUTGA - World Premiere of a feature film of (sold out for Bengal village life, produced by Satyajit Ray of Calcutta, 1955. May 17th eve.) The last of "The Living Arts of India"series of evenings to be presented by the Museum's Junior Council in connection with the 8:30 p.m. in the exhibition, "Textiles and Ornamental Arts of India," currently Auditorium on view in the Museum's first floor galleries. Admission: Members and Students - $2.25, Non-members - $3.00 May 25 - Sept. 5 PAINTINGS FROM PRIVATE COLLECTIONS. An exhibition of approximately 100 important paintings from the collections of friends of the Museum, planned to complement the "Paintings from the Museum Collection" exhibition with which the Museum's 25th Anniversary celebration opened. -
This 2018 Film Is … • a Remake … • an Tribute … • a Reinterpretation … • an Update … • an “Offspring” …
The 50mm Club at CSUN Cinematheque November 20, 2018 An evening with David Kajganich Writer & Producer Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino Suspiria, an Amazon Studios production, played in competition in the 2018 Venice Film Festival This 2018 film is … • A remake … • An tribute … • A reinterpretation … • An update … • An “offspring” … of the 1977 Suspiria? David Kajganich, who wrote the screenplay & produced the film should be able to tell us! Suspiria (1977) directed by Dario Argento • Dario Argento – Italian filmmaker born in Rome in 1940 • Family of film producers – daughter Asia • Worked as a film critic & screenwriter - Once upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone) • Cultivates a subgenre of horror film called giallo Key films • Deep Red (1975) • Suspiria (1977) • Inferno (1980) • Tenebre (1982) • Mother of Tears (2007) Giallo as a film genre • Italian subgenre of horror film - 1960s-1970s • Best described as an hyperbolic serial-killer mystery • It generally has urban settings & disturbingly creative murders • “giallo” means “yellow”, & refers to the covers of a popular series of paperback thrillers published by Mondadori. Italian directors that worked in the giallo genre • Mario Bava • Lamberto Bava • Pupi Avati • Sergio Corbucci • Lucio Fulci • Carlo Lizzani • Elio Petri • Luigi Zampa Giallo outside of Italy This breed of slasher flick has influenced American directors: Brian De Palma, Dressed to Kill (1980) John Carpenter, Halloween (1978) Wes Craven, Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Suspiria (1977) • Eerie tale of a naïve American ballet student who attends a haunted school in Freiburg, southern Germany • Mixes the vocabulary of the giallo genre with art-film surrealist esthetics • Has become a cult film – 2-DVD Criterion edition • Argento used the standard formula for giallo, more interested in how the movie feels & looks & sounds than in the story. -
Filmographie
347 Filmographie Abbasso la miseria! (Gennaro Righelli, 1945) Acciaio (Walter Ruttmann, 1933) Achtung! Banditi! (Carlo Lizzani, 1951) L’amore (Roberto Rossellini, 1948) Anna (Alberto Lattuada, 1951) I bambini ci guardano (Vittorio De Sica, 1943) Bambini in città (Luigi Comencini, 1946) Il bandito (Alberto Lattuada, 1946) Il bell’Antonio (Mauro Bolognini, 1960) Bellissima (Luchino Visconti, 1951) Berliner Ballade (Robert Adolf Stemmle, 1948) Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, 1914) Caccia tragica (Giuseppe De Santis, 1947) Camicia nera (Giovacchino Forzano, 1933) Campane a martello (Luigi Zampa, 1950) Campo de’ Fiori (Mario Bonnard, 1943) Catene (Raffaello Matarazzo, 1949) Cielo sulla palude (Augosto Genina, 1949) La Ciociara (Vittorio De Sica, 1960) Comacchio (Fernando Cerchio, 1942) La confessione di una donna (Amleto Palermi, 1928) Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo (Alberto Lattuada, 1947) Desiderio (Roberto Rossellini, 1946) Due lettere anonime (Mario Camerini, 1945) Eins-zwei-drei Corona! (Hans Müller, 1948) I fi gli di nessuno (Raffaello Matarazzo, 1951) La fortuna di essere donna (Alessandro Blasetti, 1956) Gente del Po (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1943, veröffentlicht 1947) Germania anno zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1947) Gioventù perduta (Pietro Germi, 1947) Il grande appello (Mario Camerini, 1936) La grande bouffe (Marco Ferreri, 1973) In jenen Tagen (Helmut Käutner, 1947) Irgendwo in Berlin (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1946) Ladri di biciclette (Vittorio De Sica, 1949) Liebe 47 (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, 1949) Luci del varietà (Federico Fellini, 1950) Luciano -
Images of Germans in Post-War Italian Cinema
Damiano Garofalo Images of Germans in Post-war Italian Cinema Abstract This essay aims at tracing the models of representation of the Germans in Italian post-war cinema. Taking into consideration dozens of films produced in Italy between ’40s and ’50s dealing with the memory of Fascism, Second World War, Holocaust and the Resis- tance, the essay questions the so-called “bad German” memorial paradigm, attempting to underline the persistences or removals of this mythology in Italian films of the period. The aim is to understand what kind of function the Germans and the Nazis assume in these works, if they have a symbolic, memorial and historiographical value, or they are just functional to the cinematic narration. Moreover, the essay discusses whether these characteristics appear differentiated, or they recall the nationalist stereotypes of those years. Analyzing four cases more deeply (“Roma città aperta”, “Anni difficili”, “Ach- tung! Banditi!”, and “Kapò”), this essay argues how the German characters reveal their characteristic of persecutors in their relationship with the Italian “victims”. As a final accomplishment, this essay inserts these representations into a wider medial and cultural system, trying to understand how these definitions and typologies affect both the local and national public memory. 1 Introduction The history of Second World War and the relations between Germany and Italy have been central in Italian post-war film culture. This paper aims at understanding how post-war Italian cinema assisted in the construction of a national and stereotypical public image of Germans in Italy. I argue that the film industry strengthened a col- lective consciousness by presenting Fascism and Italian-German relations in different ways. -
1 Revisiting the Past As a Means of Validation: Bridging the Myth of The
1 Revisiting the Past as a Means of Validation: Bridging the Myth of the Resistance and the Satire of the Economic Miracle in Two Comedies “Italian style” Giacomo Boitani, National University of Ireland, Galway Abstract: Many commedia all’italiana filmmakers have acknowledged the neorealist mode of production as a source of inspiration for their practice of pursuing social criticism in realistic and satirical comedies between 1958 and 1977. The detractors of the genre, however, have accused the commedia filmmakers of “diluting” the neorealist engagement to a simple description of the habits of Italians during the Economic Miracle, a description which threatened to encourage, through the casting of popular stars, the cynical attitude it sought to satirise. In this article, I shall discuss how two commedia all’italiana directors, namely Dino Risi and Ettore Scola, produced two significant commedie, respectively Una vita difficile (1961) and C’eravamo tanto amati (1974), which bridged the Resistance setting, associated with neorealism, and the Economic Miracle setting of most commedie all’italiana in order to reaffirm their neorealist roots, thus revisiting the past as a response to the critical underestimation from which their cinematic practice suffered. Many filmmakers of the comedy “Italian style” genre (commedia all’italiana) have acknowledged Italian neorealism as a source of inspiration for their practice of pursuing social criticism in realistic and satirical comedies produced in the years between 1958 and 1977. For instance, comedy “Italian style” star Alberto Sordi said that of those involved in the genre that “our project was to reinvent neorealism and to take it in a satirical direction” (Giacovelli, Un italiano 110),1 while director Marco Ferreri stated that “the commedia is neorealism revisited and modified in order to make people go to the movies” (Giacovelli, Commedia 21). -
Italian Neorealism, Vittorio De Sica, and Bicycle Thieves
CHAPTER 4 ITALIAN NEOREALISM, VITTORIO DE SICA, AND BICYCLE THIEVES The post-World War II birth or creation of neorealism was anything but a collective theoretical enterprise—the origins of Italian neorealist cinema were far more complex than that. Generally stated, its roots were political, in that neorealism reacted ideologically to the control and censorship of the prewar cinema; aesthetic, for the intuitive, imaginative response of neorealist directors coincided with the rise or resurgence of realism in Italian literature, particularly the novels of Italo Calvino, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Pavese, Elio Vittorini, and Vasco Pratolini (a realism that can be traced to the veristic style first cultivated in the Italian cinema between 1913 and 1916, when films inspired by the writings of Giovanni Verga and others dealt with human problems as well as social themes in natural settings); and economic, in that this new realism posed basic solutions to the lack of funds, of functioning studios, and of working equipment. Indeed, what is sometimes overlooked in the growth of the neorealist movement in Italy is the fact that some of its most admired aspects sprang from the dictates of postwar adversity: a shortage of money made shooting in real locations an imperative choice over the use of expensive studio sets, and against such locations any introduction of the phony or the fake would appear glaringly obvious, whether in the appearance of the actors or the style of the acting. It must have been paradoxically exhilarating for neorealist filmmakers to be able to stare unflinchingly at the tragic spectacle of a society in shambles, its values utterly shattered, after years of making nice little movies approved by the powers that were within the walls of Cinecittà. -
Film Neorealism and the Postwar Italian Condition
Re-envisioning the Nation: Film Neorealism and the Postwar Italian Condition Brent J. Piepergerdes1 Department of Geography, University of Kansas 1475 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, KS, 66045 Email: [email protected] Abstract Emerging out of the ashes of Fascism, Italian Neorealist films were inexorably tied to the social, political, and economic reorganization of the nation in the immediate postwar years. Coupled with the advent of new cinematic techniques that characterized the genre (the use of non-actors, natural lighting, on-location shooting, and the absence of melodrama), the reassertion of local and regional realities in Neorealist films marked a sharp break from Fascist-era depictions of a national ideal. By injecting presentations of poverty and class conflict into the urban setting and deconstructing the rural idyll, Neorealism offered a new means of imagining national unity based on class consciousness and consent as opposed to coercion. The attempts to present the “social truths” of the postwar period revolved around the transformation of the iconic images central to Fascist constructions of the nation. Luchino Visconti’s La terra trema (1948) is discussed as emblematic of the shared moral and stylistic unity of the genre. 1 © Brent J. Piepergerdes, 2007; collection © ACME Editorial Collective Re-envisioning the Nation: Film Neorealism and the Postwar Italian Condition 232 Introduction In his examination of the relationship between cinema and socio-cultural transformation in Italy, P. Adams Sitney identifies two specific periods in which film has most actively participated in the (re)construction and communication of the changing nation: the immediate postwar period of the late 1940s, and the early 1960s, years marked by the apex of Italy’s “economic miracle” (Sitney 1995, ix). -
PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN the CURE. PRE-CENSORSHIP in ITALIAN CINEMA by Enrico Gaudenzi
PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN THE CURE. PRE-CENSORSHIP IN ITALIAN CINEMA by Enrico Gaudenzi Preventative censorship of films means, after having read the script or screenplay, before the start of shooting, the censors suggest a series of modifications to avoid eventual problems, time wasting and money down the drain in the phase of final censorship. The political powers have always kept a wary eye on Italian cinema. Giovanni Giolitti used to invite prefects in the country to check the content of films, even before the existence of a law on censorship. When the law was finally created, in 1914, it was an important turning point, turning the State into a controlling body, at times very severe, other less so, of every single product to hit the market. The original censorship system must not have been adequate enough for certain members of the ruling classes, because already in 1917, a minor part of the law was modified. After the Battle of Caporetto, all propaganda was reorganized, and many companies offered to help the government in the preparation of new war films as a form of entertainment. The letters of a minister at the time, Comandini (delegate of Internal Propaganda), show that there was the obligation for films that planned to portray the war underway with the backing of the State propaganda movement, to have the scripts read by the minister. Romeo Adriano Gallenga Stuart (who worked alongside Vittorio Scialoja, the minister for Propaganda Abroad) left papers documenting this too: On 8 December 1917, he wrote “Civil propaganda films which will eventually be State-approved, need to send scripts before filming begins to the cabinet of S. -
Scatola N. 17 VISCONTI (A) REGISTA TITOLO FILM QUANTITÀ Luchino
Scatola n. 17 VISCONTI (A) INVENTARIO 197.340 QUANTITÀ FOTOGRAFIE: 44 REGISTA TITOLO FILM QUANTITÀ Luchino Visconti Senso 15 Rocco e i suoi fratelli 11 Il gattopardo 3 Lo straniero 4 Ossessione 8 n.r. 3 VISCONTI (per Casiraghi) INVENTARIO 197.341 QUANTITÀ FOTOGRAFIE: 117 REGISTA TITOLO FILM QUANTITÀ Luchino Visconti Rocco e i suoi fratelli 14 La terra trema 20 La caduta degli dei 1 Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... 7 Senso 4 Bellissima 6 Mort a Venise 7 Gruppo di famiglia in un interno 4 Rovesciare! 1 Il lavoro 4 Le notti bianche 17 Siamo donne 1 Il gattopardo 1 Ossessione 2 Ludwig 1 n.r. 27 VISCONTI (B) INVENTARIO 197.342 QUANTITÀ FOTOGRAFIE: 35 REGISTA TITOLO FILM QUANTITÀ Luchino Visconti n.r. 8 Ossessione 11 Senso 5 Rocco e i suoi fratelli 3 Mort a Venise 2 Lo straniero 5 Strega bruciata viva 1 TAVIANI ORSINI INVENTARIO 197.343 QUANTITÀ FOTOGRAFIE: 57 REGISTA TITOLO FILM QUANTITÀ Paolo e Vittorio Taviani Il prato 12 I fuorilegge del matrimonio 1 Valentino Orsini, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani Un uomo da bruciare 16 Paolo e Vittorio Taviani Sovversivi 11 Valentino Orsini Corbari 3 n.r. n.r. 1 Paolo e Vittorio Taviani Kaos 1 Valentino Orsini, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani ritratto dei 3 registi 1 Paolo e Vittorio Taviani Padre Padrone 7 L'amante dell'orsa maggiore 3 n.r. n.r. 1 ZAMPA INVENTARIO 197.344 QUANTITÀ FOTOGRAFIE: 144 REGISTA TITOLO FILM QUANTITÀ Luigi Zampa Campane a martello 15 Anni ruggenti 3 Vivere in pace 2 Il mostro 4 Bisturi, la mafia bianca 4 Guerra o pace 15 Processo alla città 10 Una questione d'onore 3 Anni difficili 12 Frenesia dell'estate 12 La romana 14 Siamo donne 1 Anni facili 1 Un americano in vacanza 3 Il vigile 3 L'onorevole Angelina 5 Il magistrato 1 Tempo di villeggiatura 1 L'arte di arrangiarsi 1 Signorinette 2 Il prof. -
Neorealism, History, and the Children's Film: Vittorio De Sica's
Neorealism, History, and The Children’s Film: Vittorio de Sica’s The Children Are Watching Us reconsidered BERT CARDULLO Yale University Abstract Vittorio De Sica used a child protagonist for the first time, not in his neorealist masterpiece Shoeshine (1946), but in his first truly serious film, The Children Are Watching Us (1943), which examines the impact on a young boy’s life of his mother’s extramarital affair with a family friend. The Children Are Watching Us proved to be a key work, thematically as well as stylistically, in De Sica’s directing career. In its thematic attempt to reveal the underside of Italy’s moral life, this film was indicative of a rising new vision in Italian cinema. And in exhibiting semi-documentary qualities by being shot partially on location, as well as by using nonprofessional actors in some roles, The Children Are Watching Us was a precursor of the neorealism that would issue forth after the liberation of occupied Rome. Keywords: Vittorio De Sica; The Children Are Watching Us; Italian neorealism; children’s films; Shoeshine; Bicycle Thieves. Where children are concerned, two myths predominate on film: that of the original innocence of children, an innocence that only becomes sullied by contact with the society of grown-ups; and that of the child-as-father-to-the-man, of childhood as a prelude to the main event of adulthood. Among films of the first kind, Jean Benoît- Levy’s La maternelle (1932), Louis Daquin’s Portrait of Innocence (1941), Kjell Grede’s Hugo and Josephine (1967), Jilali Ferhati’s Reed Dolls (1981), and Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly (2004) deserve special mention.