under the direction of Jean Gili Volume 1: of neorealism to the Italy of conflict
This publication still available to the Association the Italy in Toulouse”!
RADICI Special Edition new, a book devoted to Italian cinema
EDITALIE editions. Volume 1 / 387 pages / 35 € / Release February 2014
POINT of sale also to the Association “The Italy in Toulouse”
A reference book on Italian cinema, with as great originality, interviews with those who have made this film, questioned by journalists writers, Essayists, reporters. This book is therefore not a nth history of Italian cinema, but the cinema and the Italian company seen and felt by the filmmakers.
Especially rich iconography is, She also, original, with its many clichés of filming and its nombresux portraits.
"Italian cinema is probably best testified that a people and who has expressed best statements - thought to neorealism-, the rifts, the suffering and the reasons to believe in the future»..
It is with these words that Jean has. Gili, introduced a book on Italian cinema. If the theme was, and continues to be still widely studied, It is this time the subject of original treatment, through a publication in two volumes : an important collection of interviews, unpublished in French, those who have done the Italian cinema of the post-war period to the present day. Interviews conducted, and it is one of the main interests of the book, by journalists who are not only specialists in Italian cinema, but true "feathers"., reporters, writers, Essayists, that have marked the major pages of Italian and international of the period journalism : Oriana Fallaci, Alberto Moravia, Oreste Del Buono, Claudio Carabba or Lietta Tornabuoni.
It is therefore not strictly speaking a "history of Italian cinema., or even a critical essay, but a personal and intimate journey, in the heart of the consciences, of the 'perks '., of these great names of the seventh art. A collection that reflected - in responses as in the questions - the key issues that crossed transalpine society and cinema. A course that is also beautiful to iconography, Thanks to numerous portraits and pictures of the shootings.
The first book talk :
- « Neorealism "with, among others, Roberto Rossellini, Giuseppe De Santis, Luchino Visconti, or Toto and Anna Magnani.
- « The Italy of the boom », Autour by Federico Fellini and Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina and Claudia Cardinale or Sophia Loren, the comedy with Dino Risi and Mario Monicelli and the beginnings of political film by Francesco Rosi.
- « The Italy of conflict "and an iconic actor, Gian Maria volonté, but as directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Ferreri and Elio Petri, Michelangelo Antonioni or the young Marco Bellocchio.
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