Melodrama - the key cinematic form of post war Italy, central to popular life and the dramatic arts. This book uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films. It provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society.
Melodrama - the key cinematic form of post war Italy, central to popular life and the dramatic arts. This book uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films. It provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Louis Bayman is a lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton. He holds a PhD from King's College, London and has published various articles on popular genres especially in relation to Italian cinema, serial killer cinema, film aesthetics and retro and nostalgia. He is author of the monograph The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama (2014) and co-editor of the collection Popular Italian Cinema.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Introduction: Why Melodrama? 1. I: Genre II: Emotion III: Worldview 2. I: Melodrama, Realism, Modernism II: Popular neorealism 3. I: Opera and cinema II: Cultural hybridity III: Matarazzo and Visconti: Vantage points on a domestic heritage Conclusion Bibliography Filmography Index