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1 online resource (261 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Advances in Stylistics
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Advances in stylistics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-252) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Chapter One: Background and introduction; Chapter Two: 'If you could say it with words, there'd be no reason to paint'. The verbal-visual interrelation in cinema; Chapter Three: Methodology of the study: the focus on the representation of conflict in film; Chapter Four: Confrontational discourse in comedy and the disengagement of dramatic talk; Chapter Five: Spaghetti and American Westerns: textual conflict between opposing masculinities; Chapter Six: The struggle for narrative autonomy in Antonioni's When Love Fails. |
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Chapter Seven: Conflict of shifting identities in Mohsen Melliti's Me, the OtherChapter Eight: Concluding remarks; Notes; References and filmography; Index. |
| Summary |
Roberta Piazza's book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s to the present day. € It looks at how speech is dealt with in studies of the cinema and tackles the lack of engagement with dialogue in film studies. It explores the representation of discourse in cinema -- the way particular manifestations of verbal interaction are reproduced in film. € Whereas 'representation' generally refers to the language used in texts to assign meaning to a group and its social practices, here discourse representation more directl. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Motion picture plays, Italian -- History and criticism.
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Motion picture plays, Italian. |
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Motion pictures -- Italy.
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Motion pictures. |
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Italy. |
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Fine Arts.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Piazza, Roberta. Discourse of italian cinema and beyond. London : Continuum International Publishing Group, ©2011 9781441182579 (OCoLC)699475266 |
| ISBN |
9781441182579 (electronic book) |
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1441182578 (electronic book) |
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1441136975 |
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9781441136978 |
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9781441178879 (paperback) |
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1441178872 (paperback) |
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9781441101501 (eBook ePub) |
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1441101500 (eBook ePub) |
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1441182578 |
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9781441136978 |
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