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Comedy Italian Style: The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies
Remi F Lanzoni
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Description for Comedy Italian Style: The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies
Paperback. A guide to the glorious works and filmmakers who make the world laugh with them. It is suitable for those lovers of enduring, wry, over-the-top, side-splitting humor on film. Num Pages: 272 pages, 52 bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; APFN; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
"Comedy Italian Style" is an essential guide to the glorious works and filmmakers who make the world laugh with them. It is for all lovers of enduring, wry, over-the-top, side-splitting humor on film. "Comedy Italian Style" "officially" known as commedia all'italiana, served as a national cinematographic patrimony for some and a satirical outlook on the economic boom years for others. In truth, it functioned as the principal economic engine of the Italian-film industry.For in many ways, Italy and Italians, are best known through these works of biting humor and incredible grace. The landmark comedies are those of the 1960s and ... Read more
"Comedy Italian Style" is an essential guide to the glorious works and filmmakers who make the world laugh with them. It is for all lovers of enduring, wry, over-the-top, side-splitting humor on film. "Comedy Italian Style" "officially" known as commedia all'italiana, served as a national cinematographic patrimony for some and a satirical outlook on the economic boom years for others. In truth, it functioned as the principal economic engine of the Italian-film industry.For in many ways, Italy and Italians, are best known through these works of biting humor and incredible grace. The landmark comedies are those of the 1960s and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780826418227
SKU
V9780826418227
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About Remi F Lanzoni
Remi Fournier Lanzoni, author of French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present, also published by Continuum International, is associate professor of French and Italian at Elon University, North Carolina.
Reviews for Comedy Italian Style: The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies
"The so-called Comedy Italian Style has been, in a certain way, affiliated with Neorealism, and is therefore considered as realistic comedy. But it is also a fusion of bitterness and charm, a genre of entertaining films that at the same time told something, in a particular moment, about an Italian society in rapid transformation. It was able to reveal on ... Read more