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<p><br> 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 that transformed Italy during the sixties—described as the “economic miracle.” Angelo Restivo argues for a completely new understanding of that cinema as a negotiation between a national aesthetic tradition of realism and a nascent postmodern image culture.<br> Restivo studies numerous films of the period, focusing mainly on the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Michelangelo Antonioni. He finds that these <i>auteurs</i>’ 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 <i>Accattone</i> and <i>Teorema,</i> and Antonioni’s <i>Red Desert</i> and <i>Blow-Up.</i> Restivo’s model for understanding the relationship of the 1960s Italian art film to its cultural contexts also

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Author

Angelo Restivo

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822327998

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sports, Literary Fiction