- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Duke University Press (February 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0822327996
- ISBN-13: 978-0822327998
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 354 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,399,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This book is far above the usual histories of national cinema. It combines political analysis, psychoanalytic reading, and close cinematic explication with Restivo's breathtaking first-hand knowledge of Italian socio-political history, enabling him to locate each author in a specific context and to discern connotations that are out of reach for most Anglo-Saxon cinema historians."-Slavoj Zizek, author of Gaze and Voice as Love Objects "Theoretically sophisticated, politically astute, and historically informed, this is a brilliant work, one that will be a productive model for the future study of Italian cinema as well as the investigation of national cinema in general. There is no doubt that this is one of the best books ever written in English on Italian cinema, and by far the most theoretically advanced. Restivo's fascinating exploration of questions of subjectivity, space, and nation will be of great interest to scholars in fields beyond Italian cinema as well." - Peter Brunette, author of The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
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The Italian art cinema of the 1960s is known worldwide for its brilliance and vitality. Yet, rarely has this cinema been considered in relation to the profound economic and cultural changes - described as the 'economic miracle' - that transformed Italy during the sixties. Angelo Restivo argues for a completely new understanding of that cinema as a negotiation between a national aesthetic tradition of realism and a nascent post-modern image culture. Restivo studies numerous films of the period, focusing mainly on the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Michelangelo Antonioni. He finds that these auteurs' films reworked the neorealist aesthetic developed in the 1940s and 1950s, explored issues brought to the fore by the subsequent consumer boom, and presaged developments central to both critical theory and the visual arts in the 1980s and 1990s.Drawing on the theories of Lacan, Zizek, Benjamin, Foucault, Jameson, and Deleuze, he shines new light on such films as Pasolini's "Accattone" and "Teorema", and Antonioni's "Red Desert" and "Blow-Up". Restivo's model for understanding the relationship of the 1960s art film to its cultural contexts also has implications that extend to the contemporary cinemas of developing countries such as Brazil and Taiwan. "The Cinema of Economic Miracles" will interest scholars and students in all areas of film studies, especially those studying theories of the image, national cinema theory, and Italian cinema, and to those engaged in poststructuralist theory, philosophy, and comparative literature.
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