Martha Zárate
Related: Italian cinema - film
Italian Cinema [...]
This essay highlights the major twists and turns in the course of the first hundred years of Italian cinema. As the cultural lingua franca of the twentieth century, motion pictures have played a role in the recent history of each country that developed its own cinema. Concomitantly, in each nation the cinema has developed differently, shaped by that nation’s history-whence this mini-history of the Italian cinema.
At the end of the essay I have appended an annotated bibliography of major film directors, Italian cinema sources, reference works, histories, themes, theory and criticism, and articles in journals. The essay and bibliography together attempt to address the gap in the cinema collection of the University of Illinois library (where I work). In a broader context this is my response to an increased emphasis (in humanities departments) on the need for cultural studies in forms of aesthetics discourse other than the literary text. --Martha Zarate, http://door.library.uiuc.edu/mdx/bibliogs/ItalianCinema.htm#Articles%20in%20Journals
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