Bibliograph

Cinematic Rome, edited by Richard Wrigley

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Cinematic Rome, edited by Richard Wrigley

Language

eng

Abstract

This book explores Rome as a site for the making of films and its changing role as a setting for cinematic narrative. A particularly rich case study of a city and its cinema, the book will reach beyond Film Studies and be of interest to readers and students in Art History, Historical and Cultural Geography, Urban History, and Classics. The essays range from early cinema to the present, and discuss both Italian cinema and the work of the many international directors who have used Rome for their films. A diverse set of cinematic representations - from little-known films of the fascist era to Roman Holiday - are placed within the context of the evolving architectural, social and politial fabric of Rome in a period of rapid and often traumatic historical change.--, Provided by publisher

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and indexes

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cinematic Rome

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

244768020

Responsibility statement

edited by Richard Wrigley

Series statement

Troubador Italian studies

Table Of Contents

Epic consolation : the fascist adventure film / Olivier Maillart -- The techniques of the Italian observer : fascist and postfascist spatio-visual culture / Michael Siegel -- Imagined and built spaces in the Rome of neorealism / Mark Shiel -- Home or away? Words and things in Quo Vadis (1951) / Anne Morey -- How Rome saved Hollywood / Robert Shandley -- Michelangelo's Rome : towards an iconology of L'Eclisse / Jacopo Benci -- Bertolucci's La Commare secca (The grim reaper) : Rome as a new wave city? / Stefano Baschiera -- Mondo Roma : images of Italy in the shockumentary tradition / Mark Goodall -- Rome ruined and fragmented : the cinematic city in Fellini-satyricon and Roma / Joanna Paul -- The consistency of location. Ferzan Özpetek's Le Fate ignoranti (2001) and La Finestra di fronte (2003) / Lesley Caldwell -- Glauber Rocha's Claro, or the tragic legibility of chaos / Bertrand Ficamos -- 'A walk through R' : Peter Greenaway's mapping of Rome in The belly of an architect / Michael Baumgartner

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