Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film

by Joseph Luzzi

Book Overview

Explores the poetics and aesthetics of the Italian art film in Rossellini, Antonioni, Fellini, and other groundbreaking directors.

A Cinema of Poetry brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understanding of aesthetic questions that stretch back to Homer. Joseph Luzzi considers the relation between film and literature, especially the cinematic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142141984X
• ISBN13: 9781421419848
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"