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Streetwalking on a Ruined Map: Cultural Theory and the City Films of Elvira Notari
Giuliana Bruno
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Paperback. Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, this book guides readers on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian culture in the first decades of the 21st century. It draws a cultural history that persuasively argues for a spatial, corporal interpretation of film language. Num Pages: 436 pages, 100 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; APFA; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 657.
Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, Giuliana Bruno enriches our understanding of early Italian film as she guides us on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian culture in the first decades of this century. This innovative approach---the interweaving of examples of cinema with architecture, art history, medical discourse, photography, and literature--addresses the challenge posed by feminism to film study while calling attention to marginalized artists. An object of this critical remapping is Elvira Notari (1875-1946), Italy's first and most prolific woman filmmaker, whose documentary-style work on street life in Naples, a forerunner of neorealism, was popularly ... Read more
Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, Giuliana Bruno enriches our understanding of early Italian film as she guides us on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian culture in the first decades of this century. This innovative approach---the interweaving of examples of cinema with architecture, art history, medical discourse, photography, and literature--addresses the challenge posed by feminism to film study while calling attention to marginalized artists. An object of this critical remapping is Elvira Notari (1875-1946), Italy's first and most prolific woman filmmaker, whose documentary-style work on street life in Naples, a forerunner of neorealism, was popularly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
Number of Pages
436
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691025339
SKU
V9780691025339
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Reviews for Streetwalking on a Ruined Map: Cultural Theory and the City Films of Elvira Notari
"In the expanding field of cinema studies, this work stands out in its rare imaginative force."—Annette Michelson, New York University