McDonald Carolan The Transatlantic Gaze

Italian Cinema, American Film
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5026-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Italian/American Culture

Tracks the influence of Italian cinema on American film from the postwar period to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDonald Carolan, Mary Ann

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

I. Introduction

II. Screen Idols and Female Admirers in The White Sheik (Fellini, 1952), The Purple Rose of Cairo (Allen, 1985), and Nurse Betty (LaBute, 2000)

III. The Art of Film Reconsidered: Blow-Up (Antonioni, 1966) and Blow Out (De Palma, 1981)

IV. The Evolving Western: From America to Italy and Back in Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968) and Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2 (Tarantino, 2003 and 2004)

V. Neorealism Revisited by African American Directors in the New Millennium: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire (Daniels, 2009) and Miracle at St. Anna (Lee, 2008)

VI. Whither the Remake?

VII. Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mary Ann McDonald Carolan is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Director of the Italian Studies Program at Fairfield University.