TY - BOOK ID - 78639830 TI - Vital crises in Italian cinema PY - 2013 SN - 1283960869 0199893063 9780199893065 9781283960861 9780199862177 0199862176 0199324107 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - History. KW - Political aspects KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78639830 AB - First published in 1995, P. Adams Sitney's Vital Crises in Italian Cinema has become a work of enduring importance in the study of Italian films produced from 1945 to 196. Examining over twenty key works of the period, Sitney identifies and explores the major thematic crises at the heart of seminal films produced by the likes of Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Michael Antonioni, and Federico Fellini. The debate over regional dialects and a unified national language find reflection in Visconti's La terra trema and its source, the novel I Malavoglia. The father-son relationship serves as an ER -