Revisiting the past as a means of validation: Bridging the myth of the resistance and the satire of the economic miracle in two comedies "Italian style"
Many commedia all’italiana filmmakers have acknowledged the neorealist mode of production as a source of inspiration for their practice of pursuing social criticism in realistic and satirical comedies between 1958 and 1977. The detractors of the genre, however, have accused the commedia filmmakers o...
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| Language: | English |
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University College Cork
2012-02-01
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| Series: | Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media |
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| Online Access: | http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue 2/HTML/ArticleBoitani.html |