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Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader explores the largely forgotten world of Italian silent cinema, including its historical epics, comedies, serials, and romance melodramas. Thirty essays by leading scholars examine topics such as pre-cinema, international distribution, stardom, acting styles, literary adaptation, futurism, nonfiction filmmaking, and local exhibition. This groundbreaking and richly illustrated volume introduces scholars and students alike to a wealth of films, archival documents, and critical research. WINNER OF THE SOUTHWEST POPULAR AND AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION'S 2015 PETER C. ROLLINS BOOK AWARD IN THE CATEGORY OF FILM AND TELEVISION.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Traveling Lightness
PART I: Methods and Objects
Chapter 1: Silent Film Historiography and Italian (Film) Historiography, Gian Piero Brunetta
Chapter 2: A Brief Cultural History of Italian Film Archives (1980-2005), Paolo Cherchi Usai
PART II: Italian Silent Cinema's Visual Cultures
Chapter 3: Italy and Pre-Cinematic Visual Culture, Carlo Alberto Zotti Minici
Chapter 4: Photography and Cinema, and Vice Versa, Giorgio Bertellini
Chapter 5: Visualizing the Past. The Italian City in Early Cinema, Marco Bertozzi
PART III: Production Companies and Contexts
Chapter 6: The Giant Ambrosio, or Italy's Most Prolific Silent Film Company, Claudia Gianetto
Chapter 7: The "Pastrone System:" Itala Film from the Origins to World War I, Silvio Alovisio
Chapter 8: Rome's Premiere Film Studio: Società Italiana Cines, Kim Tomadjoglou
Chapter 9: Milano Films: The Exemplary History of a Film Company of the 1910s, Raffaele De Berti
Chapter 10: Southern (and Southernist) Italian Cinema, Giorgio Bertellini
Chapter 11: Italian Cinema in the 1920s, Jacqueline Reich
Chapter 12: From Wonder to Propaganda: The Technological Context of Italian Silent Cinema, Luca Giuliani
PART IV: Genres
Chapter 13: Non-Fiction Production, Aldo Bernardini
Chapter 14: In Hoc Signo Vinces: Historical Films, Giuliana Muscio
Chapter 15: All the same or Strategies of Difference. Early Italian Comedies in International Perspective, Ivo Blom
Chapter 16: The Diva-Film: Context, Actresses, Issues, Angela Dalle Vacche
Chapter 17: Early Italian Serials and (Inter-)National-Popular Culture, Monica Dall'Asta
Chapter 18: Futurist Cinema: Ideas and Novelties, Giovanni Lista
Chapter 19: STRACITTÀ: Cinema, Rationalism, Modernism, and Italy's "Second Futurism", Leonardo Quaresima
Chapter 20: Istituto Nazionale Luce: a National Company with an International Reach, Pierluigi Erbaggio
PART V: Cinematic Words: On Paper, On Stage, On Screen
Chapter 21: Film on Paper: Early Italian Cinema Literature, 1907-1920, John P. Welle
Chapter 22: On the Language of Silent Films in Italy, Sergio Raffaelli
Chapter 23: Famous Actors, Famous Actresses: Notes on Acting Style in Italian Silent Films, Francesco Pitassio
Chapter 24: "Our Beautiful and Glorious Art Lives:" The Rhetoric of Nationalism in Early Italian Film Periodicals, John David Rhodes
Chapter 25: Italy's Early Film "Theories:" Borders and Crossings, Francesco Casetti
PART VI: Circulation, Exhibition, and Reception
Chapter 26: Disordered Traffic: Film Distribution in Italy (1905-1930), Chiara Caranti
Chapter 27: "Pictures from Italy:" Italian Silent films in Britain, 1907-1915, Pierluigi Ercole
Chapter 28: Research on Local Moviegoing: Trends and Future Perspectives, Paolo Caneppele
PART VII:Research
Chapter 29: Where Can I Find Italian Silent Cinema?, Ivo Blom
Chapter 30: Cinema on Paper: Researching Non-filmic Materials, Luca Mazzei
Bibliography
Reference Works
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Bibliographic Appendix: Film Exhibition and Spectatorship by Paolo Caneppele
Contributors
Indexes
Film Titles
Names
Film Companies and Institutions
