Italian
Film Posters
by Dave Kehr
Hardcover from Museum of Modern Art, New York
Book Published: October, 2003 |
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The
Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi
in Fellini's Rome
by Karen Pinkus
Synopsis
Early on a windy morning in April 1953, the body of a young woman washed
up on a beach outside of Rome. Her name was Wilma Montesi, and, as the
papers reported, she had left her home in the city centre a day earlier,
alone. The police called her death an accidental drowning. But the public
was not convinced. In the cafes around the Via Veneto, people began to
speak - of the son of a powerful politician, lavish parties, movie stars,
orgies, drugs. How this news item of everyday life exploded into one of
the greatest scandals of a modern democracy is the story Karen Pinkus tells
in "The Montesi Scandal". Wilma's death brought to the surface every simmering
element of Italian culture: bitter aspiring actresses, corrupt politicians,
nervous Jesuits in sunglasses, jaded princes. Italians of all types lined
up to testify in the death of the middle-class carpenter's daughter. They
sold their stories to the tabloids, only to retract them. They posed for
pictures while pretending to shun the spotlight. Pinkus takes us through
Rome in the 1950s, linking Wilma's death to the beginnings of the "dolce
vita" and following the first paparazzi on their scooters as they shoot
the protagonists. More than a meditation of the intricate ties among cinema,
paparazzo photography and Italian life, "The Montesi Scandal" narrates
the story and its characters as the notes for an unrealized film, brilliant
in form and conception. As the reader discovers, the story of Wilma Montesi
cannot be understood except as a film -but, ironically, one that seems
impossible to produce.
Hardcover from University of Chicago Press (Trd)
Book Published: May, 2003 |
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Beyond
the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema
by Jacqueline Reich
Paperback from Indiana University Press
Book Published: April, 2004
Cinema
Italian Style
by Silvia Bizio, Claudia Laffranchi
Paperback from Gremese Editore
Book Published: May, 2002 |
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The Italian cinema
by Pierre Leprohon
Unknown Binding from Secker and Warburg
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