An investigative cinema : politics and modernization in Italian, French, and American film /
This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies. These documentary-like films refrain from a simplistic reconstruction of historical events and are mainly concerned with what does not immedia...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Any Resemblance to Real Persons or Actual Facts Is [Not] Purely Coincidental
- 2. Neorealism and the Double Stain: Television and Italian High Modernist Filmmakers
- Images of Television
- A Split Soul
- The Interview as Self-Criticism: On Pasolini's Metatelevisual and Extracinematographic Performativity
- Shifting the Present: Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano
- Evening Rituals: Marco Ferreri's Dillinger Is Dead
- 3. Objectively False: French Cinema and the Algerian Question
- A Cinema of Absence
- A Faceless Enemy: Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers
- 4. Stars and Stardom in Investigative Cinema: The Movies of Gian Maria Volonte and Gael Garcia Bernal
- Gian Maria Volonte and the Moro Affair
- Volonte Plays Volonte'
- Moro 1: The Hermit Murderess
- Moro 2: The Two-Faced Janus
- In and Out of the Jungle: The Politics of Gael Garcia Bernal
- Between Marcos and Che Guevara
- Even the Rain: A Confluence of Cinematic and Historical Temporalities
- No and the Aesthetics of Television
- 5. The Ontology of Replay: The Zapruder Video and American Conspiracy Films
- Back and Forward
- For ward and Back
- Let It Bleed (Side One)
- Rewind: Notes on Direct Cinema
- Let It Bleed (Side Two)
- Screening the Flow
- A Conversation with Albert Maysles
- 6. Unidentified Narrative Objects: The Anti-Mafia and No-Global Films as Transmedia Adaptations
- Transmission Test One: An SOS to the World (Radio Free Sicily 98.1 MHz)
- Transmission Test Two: The Director and the Broomstick (Radio Bologna 105.0 MHz)
- One Hundred Flowers, One Thousand Channels (Any Available Frequency)
- Interferences: Marco Tullio Giordana's One Hundred Steps (Radio Aut 98.8 MHz)
- Somewhere Else: Guido Chiesa's Working Slowly (Radio Alice 100.6 MHz)
- Network Narrative in Daniele Vicari's Diaz. Don't Clean Up This Blood (Radio GAP 87.8 MHz)
- Saviano, Garrone, Gomorrah: Noir and Neo-Noir in the Land of the Camorra
- 7. The Ontology of the Digital: War on Terror and Post-9/11 Visual Culture
- The Aesthetics of the Procedural in Post-9/11 Cinema
- Two Documentary "Portraits": Citizenfour and Risk.
