{"product_id":"cinema-of-poetry-aesthetics-of-the-italian-art-film-9781421419848","title":"Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the poetics and aesthetics of the Italian art film in Rossellini, Antonioni, Fellini, and other groundbreaking directors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Cinema of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understanding of aesthetic questions that stretch back to Homer. Joseph Luzzi considers the relation between film and literature, especially the cinematic adaptation of literary sources and, more generally, the fields of rhetoric, media studies, and modern Italian culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book balances theoretical inquiry with close readings of films by the masters of Italian cinema: Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, and others. Luzzi's study is the first to show how Italian filmmakers address such crucial aesthetic issues as the nature of the chorus, the relation between symbol and allegory, the literary prehistory of montage, and the place of poetry in cinematic expression--what Pasolini called the \"cinema of poetry.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Luzzi establishes how certain qualities of film--its link with technological processes, capacity for mass distribution, synthetic virtues (and vices) as the so-called total art--have reshaped centuries-long debates, \u003ci\u003eA Cinema of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e also explores what is specific to the Italian art film and, more broadly, Italian cinematic history. In other words, what makes this version of the art film recognizably \"Italian\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Luzzi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421419848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Luzzi \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of comparative literature at Bard College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRomantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the MLA's Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies; \u003ci\u003eMy Two Italies\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice; and \u003ci\u003eIn a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me about Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44436199800947,"sku":"9781421419848","price":51.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_e5ce11ee-6c99-4410-9c23-0fa31f7f92e1.jpg?v=1772893092","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/cinema-of-poetry-aesthetics-of-the-italian-art-film-9781421419848","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}