Fascism and the Second World War left Italy indelibly changed, and cinema was arguably the art that most rigorously confronted the devastated nation. In this examination of four Italian filmmakers, Noa Steimatsky brilliantly maps their forceful negotiation of Italyas identity and posits that the cinematic forms they employ constitute an imaginary reinhabiting of Italy-one that is inextricably linked with the political, physical, and symbolic predicament of reconstruction. A dynamic intersection of pictorial and photographic, architectural and literary discourses inform Steimatskyas revisionist interrogation of exemplary works from the 1940s to the mida1960s. From the earliest documentary work of Michelangelo Antonioni on the River Po to Pier Paolo Pasolinias re-siting of the Gospel in the arid, peripheral landscape of the Italian south, and from Roberto Rossellinias tracing of a neorealist project in ruinous Berlin to Luchino Viscontias wrought grandeur visited upon a humble Sicilian fishing village, Italian Locations probes the historical experience of displacement, anachronism, and a thoroughly contemporary anxiety in the cinematic arena. For Steimatsky, Antonionias modernist achievement, informed by his native landscape, Rossellinias neorealist image of Italy as a nation of ruins, Viscontias reaching back to the nineteenth century and even more archaic pasts, and Pasolinias ambivalence about modernity-all partake in a search for a politically and culturally redeemed Italy. Noa Steimatsky is associate professor of the history of art and film studies at Yale University.The short story format of the episodes begets here a terse, elliptical mode wherein what remains unsaid, and only briefly seen, ... Rossellinia#39;s study of war and its aftermath is traced in the Neapolitan episode first as childa#39;s play, then as theatrical spectacle: recall the ... Surpassing mimetic realism or naive documentation, surpassing as well the awkwardness of performance and shifts of register in aanbsp;...
Title | : | Italian Locations |
Author | : | Noa Steimatsky |
Publisher | : | U of Minnesota Press - 2008 |
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