Worlds Made By Words
Download and Read Worlds Made By Words full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free Worlds Made By Words ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Worlds Made by Words
Author | : Anthony Grafton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780674032576 |
Download Worlds Made by Words Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form.
Worlds Made by Words Related Books
Pages: 438
Pages: 260
Pages: 336
Pages: 384
Pages: 0