{"product_id":"vital-crises-in-italian-cinema-iconography-stylistics-politics-9780199862177","title":"Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics","description":"Examining the landmark works that ushered in Italy's golden age of cinema, P. Adams Sitney provides a stylish, historically rich survey of the epochal films made by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and others in the years after\u003cbr\u003eWorld War II. Remarking on the period in 1957, Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote that its films reflected a vital crisis in Italian culture after the fall of Fascism. Sitney expands this conceit to demonstrate the multivalent social and political forces behind a range of movies made from the mid-1940s\u003cbr\u003ethrough the1960s that includes \u003cem\u003ePaisa\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLa terra trema\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLadri di biciclette\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eL'Avventura\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLa dolce vita\u003c\/em\u003e. Throughout its pages, the book considers how the nation's cinema depicts the convergence of Christian and Resistance iconography; contemplates the debate over dialect and a national language;\u003cbr\u003edeploys cinematic effects for the purposes of political allegory; and incorporates insights from the psychoanalytic discourse that became popular in Italy during the fifties and sixties. This new edition includes an epilogue that extends the range of the study into the 1970s with discussions of\u003cbr\u003eNanni Moretti's\u003cem\u003e Io sono autaurchico\u003c\/em\u003e, the Tavianis' \u003cem\u003ePadre Padrone\u003c\/em\u003e, and Ermanno Olmi's \u003cem\u003eL'albero degli zoccoli\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e P. Adams Sitney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199862177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eP. Adams Sitney\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. His previous books include \u003cem\u003eVisionary Film: The American Avan-Garde\u003c\/em\u003e 1943-2000 and \u003cem\u003eEyes Upside Down: Visionary Filmmakers and the Heritage of Emerson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39937667039347,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4a528832-2a0f-42f7-974f-22a811b067bb.jpg?v=1647995350","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/vital-crises-in-italian-cinema-iconography-stylistics-politics-9780199862177","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}