Christian Uva

Sergio Leone

Cinema as Political Fable

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Produktbeschreibung

Celebrated film director Sergio Leone brings to mind spectacle, myth, and fable. But what about the political aspects of his films? This book offers a sophisticated portrait of Leone's professional and intellectual evolution through the lens of the political.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 151mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 266g
• ISBN-13: 9780190942694
• ISBN-10: 019094269X
• Artikelnr.: 57792348

Autorenporträt

Christian Uva is Associate Professor of Cinema, Photography and Television at Roma Tre University. He has published at length on the relationship between Italian cinema, history, and politics, and on the image in the age of digital production. Among his publications are Schermi di piombo. Il terrorismo nel cinema italiano (2007), Cinema digitale (2012), L'immagine politica (2015), and Il sistema Pixar (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1. Sergio Leone's Short Century
* 1.1. A Childhood in the Shadow of the Regime
* 1.2. The Apprenticeship Years: Between National-Popular and Engaged
Cinema
* 1.3. The Debut: From Myth to Historical Imagery
* 1.4. Leone's Road to Western
* 1.5. Engaged Cinema
* 1.6. From Director to Producer
* 1.7. From the 'Film of Films' to the Unfinished Project
* 2. Cinema Between Fable and Political Mythology
* 2.1. Political Spectacle
* 2.2. Postmodern as the 'Third Way'
* 2.3. World Metaphors and Thought Models Between Gramsci and Jünger
* 2.4. Repressing Fascism: Leone's Sword-and-Sandal Debut
* 2.5. The First Trilogy: Men With No Names and Subversive
Dis-Identities
* 2.6. The Second Trilogy: Historical and Political Imagery in a Fable
World
* 3. Three Sequences
* 3.1. Dislocations and Symbols Between Macrohistory and Microhistory
* 3.2. "Revolution Is an Act of Violence"
* 3.3. Voyeurism, Gender, Jewishness