TY - BOOK ID - 16792329 TI - Contemporary Italian filmmaking PY - 1995 VL - *2 SN - 0802069797 080200556X 9786612002991 1282002996 1442673354 9781442673359 9781282002999 9780802005564 9780802069795 6612002999 PB - Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures KW - Fellini, Federico. KW - Pirandello, Luigi, KW - Scola, Ettore, KW - Bīrāndallū, Luwījī, KW - Pirandello, Luidzhi, KW - Pirandélo, Luwiji, KW - פיראנדלו, לואיג׳י, KW - פירנדלו, לואיג׳י KW - פירנדלו, לואיג׳י, KW - بيراندللو، لويجي، KW - Fellini, Frederico KW - Fellini, F. KW - Felini, Federiḳo KW - פליני, פדריקו KW - Italy KW - History KW - Pirandello, Luigi KW - Influence KW - Motion pictures - Italy. KW - Пиранделло, Луиджи, KW - Fellas, KW - Pīrāndillū, Lūʼījī, KW - پىراندللو، لوئيجى KW - Fellini, Federico KW - Italien KW - Italy. KW - Italia KW - Italian Republic KW - Italianska republika KW - Italʹi͡anskai͡a Rėspublika KW - Italie KW - Italii͡ KW - Italii͡a Respublikasi KW - Italiĭsʹka Respublika KW - Itālija KW - Itālijas Republika KW - Italijos Respublika KW - Italikē Dēmokratia KW - Īṭāliy KW - Italiya Respublikasi KW - It'allia KW - It'allia Konghwaguk KW - İtalya KW - İtalya Cumhuriyeti KW - Iṭalyah KW - Iṭalye KW - Itaria KW - Itaria Kyōwakoku KW - Jumhūrīyah al-Īṭālīyah KW - Kgl. Italienische Regierung KW - Königliche Italienische Regierung KW - Laško KW - Lýðveldið Ítalía KW - Olasz Köztársaság KW - Olaszország KW - Regno d'Italia KW - Repubblica italiana KW - Republiḳah ha-Iṭalḳit KW - Włochy KW - Yidali KW - Yidali Gongheguo KW - Königreich Italien KW - Repubblica Italiana KW - Olaszorszaǵ KW - Olasz Koz̈taŕsasaǵ KW - Italienische Republik KW - République Italienne KW - Yidali-gongheguo KW - Italiener KW - Königreich Sardinien KW - Republik von Salò KW - 17.03.1861 KW - -Motion pictures UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16792329 AB - Contemporary Italian Filmmaking is an innovative critique of Italian filmmaking in the aftermath of World War II - as it moves beyond traditional categories such as genre film and auteur cinema. Manuela Gieri demonstrates that Luigi Pirandello's revolutionary concept of humour was integral to the development of a counter-tradition in Italian filmmaking that she defines 'humoristic'. She delineates a 'Pirandellian genealogy' in Italian cinema, literature, and culture through her examination of the works of Federico Fellini, Ettore Scola, and many directors of the 'new generation, ' such as Nanni Moretti, Gabriele Salvatores, Maurizio Nichetti, and Giuseppe Tornatore. A celebrated figure of the theatrical world, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is little known beyond Italy for his critical and theoretical writings on cinema and for his screenplays. Gieri brings to her reading of Pirandello's work the critical parameters offered by psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and postmodernism to develop a syncretic and transcultural vision of the history of Italian cinema. She identifies two fundamental trends of development in this tradition: the 'melodramatic imagination' and the 'humoristic, ' or comic, imagination. With her focus on the humoristic imagination, Gieri describes a 'Pirandellian mode' derived from his revolutionary utterances on the cinema and narrative, and specifically, from his essay on humour, L'umorismo (On Humour, 1908). She traces a history of the Pirandellian mode in cinema and investigates its characteristics, demonstrating the original nature of Italian filmmaking that is particularly indebted to Pirandello's interpretation of humour. ER -