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Leone. Il cinema come favola politica (2013), and L’immagine politica. Forme
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del contropotere tra cinema, video e fotografia nell’Italia degli anni Settanta e
m
(2015). He is the author of numerous articles in international journals and a
edited volumes, both on the intersection of politics and history in Italian
Edited by
cinema and on the theoretical implications of the advent of the digital era.
Giancarlo Lombardi
ISBN 978-3-0343-2217-1
and Christian Uva
www.peterlang.com
PETER LANG
P A N O R A M AS • I T A L I A N M O D E R N I T I E S P A N O R A M AS • I T A L I A N M O D E R N I T I E S
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•
Giancarlo Lombardi is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the
I
College of Staten Island and at the Graduate Center/CUNY. He has published ta
l
extensively on Italian film, television studies, and contemporary Italian litera- ia
n
ture. He is author of Rooms with a View: Feminist Diary Fiction (2002) and co-
P
editor of Remembering Aldo Moro (2012), and Terrorism, Italian Style (2012). o
l
i
t
Christian Uva is Associate Professor at the University of Roma Tre. His books ic
a
include Schermi di piombo. Il terrorismo nel cinema italiano (2007), Sergio l
C
Leone. Il cinema come favola politica (2013), and L’immagine politica. Forme
i
n
del contropotere tra cinema, video e fotografia nell’Italia degli anni Settanta e
m
(2015). He is the author of numerous articles in international journals and a
edited volumes, both on the intersection of politics and history in Italian
Edited by
cinema and on the theoretical implications of the advent of the digital era.
Giancarlo Lombardi
and Christian Uva
www.peterlang.com
PETER LANG
Italian Political Cinema
p a n o r a m aS • ItalIan ModernItIes
Vol. 1
Edited by
Pierpaolo Antonello and Robert Gordon,
University of Cambridge
PETER lANG
oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien
Italian
Political
Cinema
Public life,
Imaginary,
and Identity
in
Contemporary
Italian Film
Edited by
Giancarlo Lombardi
and Christian Uva
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oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Prologue 1
Giancarlo Lombardi and Christian Uva
Italian Political Cinema: Definitions and Goals 3
Part One: Thematic Approaches 15
Gaetana Marrone
Italian Political Cinema: The Early Masters 17
Christian Uva
The New Cinema of Political Engagement 31
Nicoletta Marini-Maio
Before and After Silvio: A Corpus for Us All 45
Áine O’Healy
Bound to Care: Gender, Affect, and Immigrant Labour 57
Anita Angelone
Italian Documentaries and Immigration 69
Elena Past
Documenting Ecomafia 81
Mary P. Wood
Noir Style and Political Cinema 93
vi
Alan O’Leary
Political/Popular Cinema 107
Vito Zagarrio
The ‘Great Beauty’, or Form Is Politics 119
Paolo Russo
Gimme (Tax) Shelter: The Politics of the Production System 133
Part Two: The Authors of Politics 149
Ruth Glynn
Marco Bellocchio and the ‘New’ Political Cinema 151
Cosetta Gaudenzi
Guido Chiesa and Postmodern Impegno 163
Laura Di Bianco
Francesca Comencini: Women Outside the Polis 173
Anna Paparcone
Marco Tullio Giordana’s Cinema and Its Civil Engagement:
Truth Does Not Play Anyone’s Game 185
Marguerite Waller
Sabina Guzzanti: Transmediating cinema politico 199
Clarissa Clò
Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi’s Trilogy: Comizi d’amore
in the Digital Age 213
Simona Bondavalli
Daniele Luchetti as Author of Politics? Little Teachers and
Modest Lessons 227
vii
Marcia Landy
Nanni Moretti by Nanni Moretti: The Biopic as Counter-History 239
Claudio Bisoni
Paolo Sorrentino: Between Engagement and savoir faire 251
Monica Jansen
Daniele Vicari: The Real Is also Human 265
Part Three: Films 277
Nicoletta Marini-Maio
Susanna Nicchiarelli’s Cosmonauta: The Space Race, or When
Communist Girls Dreamed of the Moon 279
Pierpaolo Antonello
Il divo: Paolo Sorrentino’s Spectacle of Politics 291
Millicent Marcus
Gomorra by Matteo Garrone: ‘La normalità dello sfacelo’ 307
Luca Caminati
Gianni Amelio’s Lamerica and the National Body Politics 319
Danielle Hipkins
Nessuno mi può giudicare: Making Over the Prostitute from a
Post-Feminist Perspective 329
Gius Gargiulo
Mario Martone’s Noi credevamo: History and Fiction 341
Giovanna De Luca
Placido Rizzotto and Segreti di Stato: Italian Investigative
Cinema and Memory 351
viii
Catherine O’Rawe
La prima linea: Film, Terrorism, and the Politics of Funding 361
Dana Renga
Romanzo criminale as Male Melodrama: ‘It is in reality always
too late’ 373
Ellen Nerenberg
Tutta colpa di Giuda: Performing Captivity 389
Giancarlo Lombardi
Viva la libertà: Language, Politics, and Consensus 399
Selected Bibliography 409
Notes on Contributors 425
Index 435
