Kilbourn The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino

Commitment to Style
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54862-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Directors' Cuts

Paolo Sorrentino has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film. This book is a critical examination of Sorrentino’s work, focusing on his emergence as a preeminent transnational auteur.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kilbourn, Russell

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Commitment to Style
1. One Man Up (L’uomo in piú): The Consequences of Coincidence
2. The Consequences of Love (Le conseguenze dell’amore): This Must Be the (Non-) Place
3. The Family Friend (L’amico di famiglia): “Ridiculous Men and Beautiful Women”
4. “What Will They Remember About You?” Il Divo and the Possibility of a Twenty-First-Century Political Film
5. This Must Be the Place: From the Ridiculous to the Unspeakable (A Holocaust Road Movie)
6. The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza): Reflective Nostalgia and the Ironic Elegiac
7. Youth (La giovinezza): Between Horror and Desire (Life’s Last Day)
8. Ceci n’est pas un pape: Postsecular Melodrama in The Young Pope
Coda: Toward a Post-Political Film: Loro and the Mediatic Elegiac
Conclusion: Style as Commitment
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Russell J. A. Kilbourn is professor of English and film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His books include Cinema, Memory, Modernity: The Representation of Memory from the Art Film to Transnational Cinema (2010) and W. G. Sebald’s Postsecular Redemption: Catastrophe with Spectator (2018).