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The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries - Softcover

Book 8 of 52: Directors' Cuts

Mazierska, Ewa

 
9781903364772: The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries

Synopsis

This analysis of the work of the most important Italian film-maker of the past thirty years uses Moretti's films as a lens to view and discuss contemporary phenomena such as the crisis of masculinity and authority, the crisis of the political Left and the transformation of the citizen's relationship to the State. Films discussed includeAprile, Dear Diary and The Son's Room, winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2001.

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About the Author

Ewa Mazierska is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies in the Department of Historical and Critical Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. She has published and edited several books about cinema in Polish and English, including Man and Culture: The Cinema of James Ivory and Trapped in the Present and Other Postmodern States: The Cinema of Wong Kar-Wai. Laura Rascaroli is Toyota Lecturer in Film and Media Studies in the School of Languages and Literature at the National University of Ireland, Cork. She is the co-author, with Ewa Mazierska, of From Moscow to Madrid: European Cities, Postmodern Cinema.

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