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The Cinema of Francesco Rosi
Francesco Rosi is one of the great realist artists of post-war Italian, indeed post-war world cinema. In this book, author Gaetana Marrone explores the rich visual language in which the Neapolitan filmmaker expresses the cultural icons that constitute his style and images. Over the years, Rosi has offered us films that trace an intricate path between the real and the fictive, the factual and the imagined. His films show an extraordinarily consistent formal balance while representing historical events as social emblems that examine, shape, and reflect the national self. They rely on a labyrinthine narrative structure, in which the sense of an enigma replaces the unidirectional path leading in...
Chemical Analysis in Cultural Heritage
Chemical Analysis provides non invasive and micro-analytical techniques for the investigation of cultural heritage materials. The tools and techniques, discussed by experts in the field, are of universal, sensitive and multi-component nature.
Materia Americana
The studies on American artistic production in viceregal times have revolved since their beginnings around the problem of style, meaning, or attribution, among others. In recent years, hand in hand with a look more attentive to social and cultural issues and to interdisciplinary intersections, an inquiry into the materiality of these objects has appeared as unavoidable. In this sense, Materia Americana is a book that, for the first time, brings together the research of leading art historians, chemists, physicists, curators, and museologists concerned with Spanish-American art, and purports to become a reference book for future works on the subject.
Comedy Italian Style
'Comedy Italian Style' is an essential guide to the glorious works and filmmakers who make the world laugh with them. It is for all lovers of enduring, wry, over-the-top, side-splitting humour on film.
The Bunny Lakes
This installation/video work is based on the Otto Preminger film 'Bunny Lake is Missing', the artist in her work Bunny Lake she follows on what happened in the movie and took it further, imagining what certain characters would do next and interpreting their next moves to create a new work.
Film Review
The year's releases in review, with necrologies and brief articles.
Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide 2006
Offers readers a comprehensive reference to the world of film, including more than eight thousand DVD titles, along with information on performers, ratings, running times, and helpful features.
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