ISSN 1712-9559
Keyword : Italian Cinema
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An analysis of how Visconti's masterful film The Leopard depicts the consciousness of the aristocracy in all its glory, pompousness, morality, rigidity and imperfections.
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A surprising examination of the two-way lineage between Federico Fellini and Italian horror cinema.
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A career analysis of one of the most intriguing figure in the annals of Italian cinema, Warren D. Keifer, who may have been an Italian using a pseudonym, or an American using a pseudonym, or a mystery novelist carving out his own mystery novel, or....well just read Curti's essay.
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Career overview of lesser known Italian director Marcello Aliprandi.
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A detailed analysis of Barilli's two unjustly lesser known filoni, The Perfume of the Lady in Black and Pensione Paura.
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A well-researched, analytical overview of Italian director/screenwriter Brunello Rondi's career.
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An interview with one of Italian cinema's most fascinating characters, Francesco Barilli.
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Author Alireza Vahdani argues against the common view of Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso) as a simple tale of nostalgia, seeing it as a more nuanced metonymy for Italian society.
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An innovative analysis of the long-lasting impact of classic Italian literature, namely Virgil and Dante, on popular Italian cinema.
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A detailed review of Roberto Curti's outstanding analysis of all things Italian gothic.
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An analysis of Corbucci's masterpiece The Great Silence as a subversive spaghetti western.
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A theoretical clarification of the nuanced differences between 'genre' and 'filoni'.
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A summary of a Master Class held at Concordia University on Italian filmmaker Paola Sangiovanni.
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The influence of Nietzche's "power of the false" on Deleuzian temporal aesthetics, as seen in Antonioni's Professione: Reporter.
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Julie Ravary praises female characters such as Monica Vitti's Claudia in ??L'Avventura?? and Alida Valli's Irma in ??Il Grido?? as exemplary of his proto-feminist treatment of women in his canon.
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A reassessment of Antonioni's much maligned American produced Zabriskie Point.
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Analysis of point of view and indirect subjectivity in Antonioni's tetralogy.
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A speculative analysis on some of the reasons behind Dario Argento's post-career decline.
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An examination of some of the important differences between the American western and the Italian (spaghetti) western.
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