| Description |
1 online resource (516 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Film theory in media history
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Film theory in media history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 490-504) and indexes. |
| Summary |
This collection is the first to bring together scholars to explore the ways in which various people and groups in Italian society reacted to the advent of cinema. Looking at the responses of writers, scholars, clergymen, psychologists, philosophers, members of parliament, and more, the pieces collected here from that period show how Italians developed a common language to describe and discuss this invention that quickly exceeded all expectations and transcended existing categories of thought and artistic forms. The result is a close-up picture of a culture in transition, dealing with a 'scandalous' new technology that appeared poised to thoroughly change everyday life. |
| Contents |
Throb of the Cinematograph / Francesco Casetti -- Section 1 -- Cinema and Modern Life / Francesco Casetti -- Cinematography / Edipi -- Philosophy of Cinematograph / Giovanni Papini -- Summertime Spectacles: The Cinema / Gaio -- Why I Love the Cinema / Maffio Maffii -- Movie Theatre Audience / Giovanni Fosse -- Art of Celluloid / Crainquebille -- Triumph of the Cinema / Ricciotto Canudo -- Death of the Word / Fausto Maria Martini -- Section 2 -- Film in Transition / Francesco Casetti -- Museum of the Fleeting Moment / Lucio d'Ambra -- Woman and the Cinema / Haydee -- Darkness and Intelligence / Emanuele Toddi -- A Spectatrix is Speaking to You / Matilde Serao -- Motion Pictures in Provincial Towns / Emilio Scaglione -- Cinematic Psychology / Edoardo Coli -- Cinematograph Doesn't Exist / Silvio d'Amico -- Cinema: School of the Will and of Energy / Giovanni Bertinetti -- Close-up / Alberto Orsi -- Soul of Titles / Ernesto Quadrone -- Section 3 -- Cinema at War / Luca Mazzei -- War, from Up Close / Nino Salvaneschi -- That Poor Cinema / Renato Giovannetti -- Families of Soldiers / Luigi Lucatelli -- War for the Profit of Industry / Renato Giovannetti -- War and Cinematograph / g.pr. -- Max Linder Dies in The War / Lucio d'Ambra -- Cinema of War / Saverio Procida -- Section 4 -- Politics, Morality, Education / Silvio Alovisio -- Motion Pictures and Education / Domenico Orano -- Intuitive Method in Religious Education / Romano Costetti -- Cinema and Its Influence on the Education of the People / Giovanni Battista Avellone -- Cinematograph in the Schools / Francesco Orestano -- Speech at the People's Theatre / Vittorio Emanuele Orlando -- Cinema for the Cultivation of the Intellect / Angelina Buracci -- Educational Cinema / Ettore Fabietti -- Section 5 -- Film, Body, Mind / Silvio Alovisio -- Collective Psychology / Pasquale Rossi -- About Some Psychological Observations Made During Film Screenings / Mario Ponzo -- Concerning the Effects of Film Viewing on Neurotic Individuals / Giuseppe d'Abundo -- Ongoing Battle between Gesture and Word / Mariano Luigi Patrizi -- Cinematograph in the Field of Mental Illness and Criminality: Notes / Giuseppe Vidoni -- Cinema and Juvenile Delinquency / Mario Ponzo -- Section 6 -- Aesthetic Side / Luca Mazzei -- Problems of Art: Expression and Movement in Sculpture / Corrado Ricci -- Scenic Impressionism / Sebastiano Arturo Luciani -- Aesthetics of Cinema / Goffredo Bellonci -- Poetics of Cinema / Sebastiano Arturo Luciani -- Manifesto for a Cinematic Revolution / Goffredo Bellonci -- Theatre and the Cinema / Antonio Gramsci -- Futurist Cinematography / Remo Chiti -- In the Beginning Was Sex / Antonio Gramsci -- Rectangle-Film (25 x 19) / Emanuele Toddi -- Proscenium Arch of My Cinema / Anton Giulio Bragaglia -- My Views on the Cinematograph / Lucio d'Ambra -- Meditations in the Dark / Michele Biancale -- Section 7 -- Theory in a Narrative Form / Luca Mazzei -- Colour Film / Roberto Tanfani -- At the Cinema / Luigia Cortesi -- A Phantom Pursued / Alberto Lumbroso -- Miopetti's Duel / Aldo Borelli -- Pamela-Films / Guido Gozzano -- Feature Film / Pio Vanzi -- Me, Riri, and Love in Slippers / Luciano Doria -- A Cinematic Performance / Federigo Tozzi -- Life, a Glass Theatre / Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo -- Shears' Reflection / Guido Gozzano. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Italy -- History.
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Motion pictures. |
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Italy. |
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History. |
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Motion pictures -- Italy -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Motion pictures -- Italy -- Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics. |
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Italy.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects. |
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Motion pictures and the arts -- Italy.
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Motion pictures and the arts. |
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Italy -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900-1999 |
| Indexed Term |
Cinema and philosophy |
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Cinema and psychology |
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Cinema and war |
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Early film theories |
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Social impact of cinema |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Casetti, Francesco, editor.
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Alovisio, Silvio, 1968- editor.
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Mazzei, Luca, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789048527106 (electronic book) |
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9048527104 (electronic book) |
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9789089648556 |
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9089648550 |
| Standard No. |
10.5117/9789089648556 |
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