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Comedy Italian Style: an Evolution of Italian Neorealism

Boitani, Giacomo
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2746
 https://doi.org/10.13025/16999
Publication Date
2011-11-30
Keywords
Film History, Italian Studies, Italian Neorealism, Film Comedy, Commedia all'Italiana, Cinematic Realism
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This dissertation examines the relationship between the critically revered cinematic mode of production flourished in Italy at the end of World War II known as "neorealism" (1945-1954) and the commercially successful Italian genre of satirical comedies labelled "commedia all'italiana" or "comedy Italian style" (1958-1977), analysing several levels of continuity between the two and showing how the existing critical conception of the passage from the earlier cinematic form to the latter as an 'involution' is misconceived and how comedy Italian style can be actually considered an 'evolved' form of neorealism.
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Connect Fellowship, National University of Ireland, Galway
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