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Popular Italian Cinema Also by Louis Bayman DIRECTORY OF WORLD CINEMA: BRAZIL (edited with Natália Pinazza) DIRECTORY OF WORLD CINEMA: ITALY (edited) THE OPERATIC AND THE EVERYDAY IN ITALIAN POST-WAR FILM MELODRAMA Also by Sergio Rigoletto MASCULINITY AND ITALIAN CINEMA: SEXUAL POLITICS, SOCIAL CONFLICT AND MALE CRISIS IN THE 1970s Popular Italian Cinema Edited by Louis Bayman King’s College London, UK and Sergio Rigoletto University of Oregon, USA Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Louis Bayman and Sergio Rigoletto 2013 Individual chapters © Contributors 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-0-230-30016-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-33586-2 ISBN 978-1-137-30565-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137305657 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 To Arthur Liebersohn and Giovanni Rigoletto This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Figures ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xiii 1 The Fair and the Museum: Framing the Popular 1 Louis Bayman and Sergio Rigoletto 2 Italian Cinema, Popular? 29 Christopher Wagstaff 3 The Prettiness of Italian Cinema 52 Rosalind Galt 4 The Pervasiveness of Song in Italian Cinema 69 Richard Dyer 5 Melodrama as Seriousness 82 Louis Bayman 6 Moving Masculinity: Incest Narratives in Italian Sex Comedies 98 Tamao Nakahara 7 Laughter and the Popular in Lina Wertmüller’s The Seduction of Mimì 117 Sergio Rigoletto 8 Strategies of Tension: Towards a Reinterpretation of Enzo G. Castellari’s The Big Racket and The Italian Crime Film 133 Alex Marlow-Mann 9 ‘Il delirio del lungo metraggio’: Cinema as Mass Phenomenon in Early Twentieth-Century Italian Cinema 147 Irene Lottini 10 Dressing the Part: ‘Made in Italy’ Goes to the Movies with Lucia Bosé in Chronicle of a Love Affair 163 Réka Buckley vii viii Contents 11 Hercules versus Hercules: Variation and Continuation in Two Generations of Heroic Masculinity 183 Daniel O’Brien 12 On the Complexity of the Cinepanettone 200 Alan O’Leary 13 Cinema and Popular Preaching: the Italian Missionary Film and Fiamme 214 Maria Francesca Piredda 14 Dolce e Selvaggio: The Italian Mondo Documentary Film 226 Mark Goodall Index 240 List of Figures 1.1 A crowded screening at the Cinema Adua, Turin (1941) 3 1.2 Publicity poster for Don Camillo e l’onorevole Peppone (1955) 10 3.1 Publicity posters for Bread and Tulips and Hamam 55 3.2 Carefully composed shots of wheat fields produce a vivid landscape aesthetic in I’m Not Scared (2003) 63 3.3 Abandoned buildings and rural poverty connect Italian political history to I’m Not Scared’s pretty landscapes 65 3.4 The Dreamers (2003) figures the shift from art cinema to popular art cinema 66 4.1 Tino pointing in Ave Maria 75 4.2 Claudette reacting to Tino pointing in Ave Maria 76 4.3 ‘Quanto Chiove’ from Carosello Napoletano 79 5.1 Darkness and trapped energy in I vitelloni 87 5.2 Tableau, bodily expressivity, physical restriction: Bellini and Maddalena profess their love in an opera box in an example of the operatics of melodrama in Casta diva 91 6.1 Poster of Lover Boy / Grazie… nonna (1975) 112 7.1 Mimì (Giancarlo Giannini) worriedly looking at Amalia’s body during the striptease in The Seduction of Mimì 126 7.2 Amalia’s gaze at Mimì in The Seduction of Mimì 127 8.1 The Big Racket, Nico Palmieri (Fabio Testi) becomes a victim of the racket when his car is pushed off the edge of a cliff in the film’s most aesthetically striking and technically brilliant scene 135 8.2 An incomplete catharsis: Nico Palmieri (Fabio Testi) vents his frustration and feelings of impotence in the film’s final scene 142 10.1 Chronicle of a Love Affair: Lucia Bosé’s hairstyle and an example of one of the tightly coiled multiple-stranded pearl necklaces worn in the film 167 ix
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