Film Italy

Italian cinema gave rise to a number of the best-known films of the postwar years, from Rome Open City to Bicycle Thieves. Although some neorealist film-makers would have preferred to abolish stars altogether, the public adored them and producers needed their help in relaunching the national film industry.

This book explores the many conflicts that arose in Italy between 1945 and 1953 over stars and stardom, offering intimate studies of the careers of both well-known and less familiar figures, shedding new light on the close relationship forged between cinema and society during a time of political transition and shifting national identities.

Made in Italy è il terzo film di Luciano Ligabue. Con Stefano Accorsi, Kasia Smutniak, Fausto Maria Sciarappa, Walter Leonardi, Filippo Dini, Alessia Giuliani, Gianluca Gobbi, Tobia De Angelis, Leonardo Santini, Jefferson Jeyaseelan, Francesco Colella, Silvia Corradin, Giuseppe Gaiani, Naya Manson, Filippo Pagotto, Marco Pancrazi, Lorenzo Pedrotti, Ettore Nicoletti. In uscita nei cinema in Italia giovedì 25 gennaio 2018.

For his third album for Chandos, the saxophonist Marco Albonetti turns to the rich tradition of film music from his native Italy.

This collection for the first time brings together scholars to explore the ways that various people and groups in Italian society reacted to the advent of cinema. Looking at the responses of writers, scholars, clergymen, psychologists, philosophers, members of parliament,and more, the pieces collected here from that period show how Italians developed a common language to describe and discuss this invention that quickly exceeded all expectations and transcended existing categories of thought and artistic forms.