O'Leary, AP orcid.org/0000-0001-8399-2006 (2015) Cinema, history, Italy: notes towards an expanded study / Appunti per uno studio esteso del film storico Italiano. Studi Culturali, XII (2). pp. 265-284. ISSN 1824-369X
Abstract
This programmatic article sets out some conceptual and methodological preliminaries to a study of Italian cinema and history capable of offering a comprehensive answer to the question: What are the modes, genres and registers in which the century-plus of Italian dramatic cinema has dealt with the history of Italy? Dramatic historical feature films are a hugely influential form of historical representation, and history has been a particular preoccupation of Italian cinema: most conspicuously in ‘admirable’ or epic forms but also in many less exportable films, from opera films to low-brow comedy. The article suggests that we need to answer a methodological imperative: to study the very many ‘typical’ and not just those ‘exceptional’ Italian films that have previously constituted a canon of historical cinema; and we need to trace the development of this vastly extended corpus from early cinema to the Twenty-first Century.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author 2015. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Studi culturali. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | cinema and history; Italian cinema; mixed methodologies; temporalities; ecology |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Italian (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jun 2015 10:55 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2018 16:29 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1405/80546 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Società Editrice il Mulino |
Identification Number: | 10.1405/80546 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:86879 |