Comedy Italian Style The Golden Age of Italian Film Comedies [Paperback]

This book explores the work of Dino Risi with The Easy Life(1962), The Monsters(1963), The New Monsters(1977), and Scent of a Woman(1974), Mario Monicelli withBig Deal on Madonna Street(1958), The Great War(1959), andAmici miei(1975), also Pietro Germi with Divorce Italian Style(1961), as well as filmmakers as disparate as Federico Fellini with Amarcord(1973), Ettore Scola with Down and Dirty(1976), Lina Wertm?ller with Swept Away(1974), Luigi Comencini with The Scientific Cardplayer(1972) and many others. In addition the volume explains how the genre was able to reveal during two decades (1960s and 1970s) many acting talents and confirmed the future legacy of picturesque icons such as Alberto Sordi, Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini and Ugo Tognazzi, all of whom depicted the Italian resilience in the utmost idiosyncratic manner.

- PART ONE: BEFORE THE ADVENT OF THE COMMEDIA ALL'ITALIANA
CHAPTER I: THE FORERUNNERS

- The Origins of Italian Comedy

- The Silent Era and the Prestige of Hollywood Comedies

- The Prewar Era, Cinecitt? andTelefoni Bianchi

- The Marc'Aurelio and the New Screenwriters

CHAPTER II: THEAGEOF NEOREALISMO ROSA

- Neorealism andNeorealismo Rosain Question

- A Special Case in Italian Comedy: Tot?

- Differences betweenCommedia ItalianaandCommedia all'italiana

- The Forerunners of the Comedy Italian Style

PART TWO: THE YEARS OF EUPHORIA AND THE COMMEDIA ALL'ITALIANA

CHAPTER I: ITALIAN COMEDY IN THE 1960s

- Italy During the Years of Economic Miracle

- Italian Film Industry in the 1960s lÓO