FILM STUDIES by Clodagh Brook, University of Birmingham, and Cosetta Veronese, University of Birmingham
FILM STUDIES By Clodagh Brook, University of Birmingham, and Cosetta Veronese, University of Birmingham General readers of Italian film history. Rémi Fournier Lanzoni, Comedy Italian Style: The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies, New York–London, Continuum, 276 pp., provides a panorama of commedia all’italiana within the broader context of comedy in Italy. Bert Cardullo, After Neorealism: Italian Filmmakers and Their Films; Essays and Interviews, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars, 198 pp., provides interviews with directors and analyses of their work, including Visconti, Fellini, Monicelli, Pasolini, Antonioni, Olmi, Amelio, and Moretti. Fabio Vighi, Sexual Difference in European Cinema: The Curse of Enjoyment, NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 258 pp., offers a radical Lacanian- Žižekian re-reading of European auteur cinema, including analysis of Rossellini, Fellini, Pasolini, and Antonioni. Adaptations and cross-media studies. V. Galbiati, ‘Tra lettera tura e cinema: Landolfi, Cavazzoni e Fellini’, Italianistica, 38.3:159–66, studies the echoes of Landolfi’s work and Cavazzoni’s novel Il poema dei lunatici in Fellini’s film La voce della luna. ParL, 60.81–83 contains an extensive section on cinema, including a reflection upon Bertolucci’s activity as a cinema critic (F. Zabagli, ‘Attilio Bertolucci “cronista di cinema”’, 80–85), and an analysis of the significance that the advent of cinema had on literary activity of the early 20th century (I. Gambacorti, ‘Lo schermo di carta. Letteratura sul cinema negli anni Dieci’, 86–98). E. Ciccotti, ‘Mario Verdone, Eugène Ionesco, Siena e il rinoceronte. Tra teatro, circo e cinema’, NA, 144.2252:187–202, analyses Verdone’s 1963 theatrical piece La gloria del Rinoceronte.
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