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Cinecittà Studios by
Call Number: Electronic resourceHistorically, the Cinecittà Studios, commonly referred to as Cinecittà (“Cinema City”), have been considered the most important Italian film studio complex. Cinecittà, which is located in the southeastern area of Rome, opened in 1937 under the direction of Luigi Freddi, the Fascist general director of cinematography. -
Italian cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by
Call Number: Electronic resourceItalian national cinema developed quickly between the last decade of the 19th century and the outbreak of World War I (particularly in Turin and also in Rome), and it won a sizeable share of film audiences around the world for, in particular, its epic films set in classical settings.
Internet resource(s)
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Cinema Italian StyleShowcasing Italian filmmaking in front of or behind the camera.
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Italian Film CommissionThe Italian Film Commission (IFC) is a division of the Italian Trade Commission (ITC) and operates as the promotional office for the audiovisual industry.
Searching the online catalog
You can use the subject heading below to find resources in the online catalog. The call number range is also included.
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motion pictures italyCall number range PN 1993.5 .I88 on Baker Level 4. Please note: this is not the only call number range, but it has the most items.
Introductory reading(s)
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Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .I88 M56 2008ISBN: 0810860732The Italian cinema is regarded as one of the great pillars of world cinema. Films like Ladri di biciclette (1948), La dolce vita (1960), and Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) attracted unprecedented international acclaim and a reputation, which only continue to grow. -
The history of Italian cinema : a guide to Italian film from its origins to the twenty-first century by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .I88 B69313 2009ISBN: 0691119880The History of Italian Cinema is the most comprehensive guide to Italian film ever published. 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. Gian Piero Brunetta covers more than 1,500 films, discussing renowned masters including Roberto Rossellini and Federico Fellini, as well as directors lesser known outside Italy like Dino Risi and Ettore Scola. -
Italian national cinema 1896-1996 by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .I88 S66 1996ISBN: 0415116988
Selected book titles
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After Fellini : national cinema in the postmodern age by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .I88 M283 2002ISBN: 0801868475Over the past twenty-five years, Italy's film industry has produced a remarkable number of award-winning international art-house hits, among them 'Cinema Paradiso' and 'Life Is Beautiful.' Despite these successes, Italian cinema is in a state of crisis: ticket sales for domestic films, which plummeted in the l980's, are only now beginning to recover; television deregulation has engendered a popular culture largely dependent on American programming; and the passing of an entire generation of brilliant auteurs-Rossellini, Viscounti, Pasolini, Antonioni, and Fellini-extinguished the revolutionary impulse which had characterized Italian filmmaking since the Second World War. -
Cinema Italian style : Italians at the Academy Awards by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.92 .B5913 2002ISBN: 887301500XLists Italian movies that were big hits, nominated, and won Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film. -
Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1995.9 .D67 D84 2015ISBN: 9781611477818Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema explores different representations of dreams, visions, hallucinations, and hypnagogic states in Italian film culture, covering the works of some of the most significant auteurs in the history of Italian cinema (Fellini, Pasolini, Moretti, Bellocchio, among others). -
Filming the nation : Jung, film, neo-realism and Italian national identity by
Call Number: Baker Berry PN 1993.5 .I88 S65 2011ISBN: 0415555140Italian neo-realism has inspired film audiences and fascinated critics and film scholars for decades. This book offers an original analysis of the movement and its defining films from the perspective of the cultural unconscious. -
Italian neorealist cinema : an aesthetic approach by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .I88 W34 2007ISBN: 0802095208The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence on filmmakers around the world. Wagstaff treats these films as assemblies of sounds and images rather than as representations of historical reality. -
Risorgimento in modern Italian culture : revisiting the nineteenth-century past in history, narrative, and cinema by
Call Number: Baker Berry PQ 4086 .R54 2005ISBN: 0838640540... However, the assessment of Risorgimento and its myths from the post-World War II era to the present remains, for the most part, unexplored. While it is undeniable that the dramatic economic, social, and political transformations that have characterized Italy from the second half of the twentieth century to the present have altered the role and function of nationalist narratives, it remains equally true that interest in the Risorgimento in modern Italian culture has not diminished. -
Spaghetti Westerns : cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone byCall Number: Baker/Berry PN 1995.9 .W4 F67ISBN: 0710005032
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Stardom, Italian style : screen performance and personality in Italian cinema by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .I88 L39 2008ISBN: 0253220084Marcia Landy examines the history of Italian celebrity culture and ponders the changing qualities of stardom in the 20th and 21st centuries. She considers the historical conditions for the rise of stardom in the context of various media, from the silent era to contemporary media, tracking how stardom shapes national and international identities. The phenomenon of the diva in the early European cinema, the invention of new stars in the sound cinema, the postwar impact on stardom through the introduction of changing forms of narration in popular genres, and the contributions to the changing faces of stardom through the films and the personas of such auteurs as Rosselini, Visconti, Fellini, and Pasolini are examined in Stardom, Italian Style.
Finding journal articles
Articles and other writings about Italian film can be found in many publications. Our collection does not titles that looks exclusively at Italian film. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.
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Film & television literature index by
Call Number: Electronic resourceUse this index to find articles about this national cinema.
Selected film titles
For more Italian language feature films, click here.
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Allegro non troppo by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #4013ISBN: 0780027914Master animator Bruno Bozzetto offers his irreverent tribute to Disney's Fantasia. Transcending parody, this erotic, satiric, and delirious animated film featuring six classical music pieces represents Bozzetto's vision of the world. Humorous live action scenes of the animator and an elderly all-women orchestra led by a lively conductor are interspersed with the animated shorts. -
Don't move = Non ti muovere by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #7163ISBN: 0794206123Life takes a dramatic turn for successful surgeon Timoteo when he discovers that his young daughter is seriously injured in an accident. Faced with the loss of his daughter, Timoteo's life begins to flash back to his illicit love affair with a destitute young woman named Italia. As their encounters increase in passion, Timoteo finds himself entangled in a torrid love affair that he cannot end. With no where to go, Timoteo is forced into making a decision that will break both his and Italia's hearts and change their lives forever. -
Identificazione di una donna = Identification of a woman by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #13669After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women, while at the same time searching for the right subject (and actress) for his next film. -
Il Generale della rovere by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #8457ISBN: 1604651245A film of intrigue and heroism within the Italian underground during the German occupation of Italy. Emanuele Bardone, a petty con man, fleeces his victims by posing as a colonel. Persuaded by the Germans to impersonate a partisan leader they have killed, he assumes the admirable qualities of the heroic officer and the German plan backfires. -
I pugni in tasca = Fists in the pocket by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #4212ISBN: 1559409746A story about a blind widow and her four children. Three are afflicted with epilepsy, and the fourth, Augusto, has to support the family. Alessandro (Sandro) wants to free his brother from this burden and sees killing the rest of the family as the only way. -
Mio fratello è figlio unico = My brother is an only child byCall Number: Jones Media DVD #7948The violent political unrest of 1960's Italy brings simmering tensions between two feuding brothers to the boiling point in this critically acclaimed film.
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Saturn in opposition byCall Number: Jones Media DVD #7543The hosts of regular gatherings are the dynamic Lorenzo and his life partner, the successful writer Davide. The somewhat uptight Angelica is helping to prepare the food, while her Antonio has yet to appear. The guest list is the abrasive Neval and her husband Roberto, Davide's ex, Sergio, the spirited Roberta, and a new arrival, the budding writer Paolo. These 40-somethings will remember the carefree existence of the past two decades.
Keeping up with the journal literature
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