Un secolo di cinema a Milano

Aldo Bernardini, VBittorio Martinelli
Coliseum Editore

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Movies are unquestionably one of the cutting-edge media in 20th-century artistic production, a discipline that has contributed more than any other to fashioning the visual culture of our contemporaries and of the artists of our day and age. The Center Pompidou continues its policy of publicizing trail-blazing references to cinematographic culture by presenting the exhibition Hitchcock and Art which first went on show in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and whose Paris debut is marked by an adaptation and some significant additions, primarily by the arrival of works from the collections held in the Musee' National d'Art Moderne. Keeping faith with the Centre's multidisciplinary vocation of exploring and valorizing relationships between the different fields of modern and contemporary artistic creation, the exhibition aims at establishing a dialogue and revealing correlations between a leading, complex and universally known opus of cinematography work on the one hand and artistic movements on the other, from Romanticism to Surrealism, as well as architecture or graphic design, which left such a profound mark as they nourished Alfred Hitchcock's imagery and aesthetic. Hitchcock and Art provides the Centre with a chance to offer the public not only the exhibition, but also Hitchcock's complete repertoire of films.

Luchino Visconti
Bianco e Nero Editore

Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Electa

On Cinderella, the fable, the shoe by Ferragamo and other designs and stills for the film Ever After, and on the relationship between cinema and fashion.

Stefania Ricci
Skira Editore

The story told in this book, which analyzes the presence of Italians in California in the early decades of the twentieth century and the influence they exerted in various sectors (from architecture to art, from crafts to the burgeoning film industry), began in 1915, the year Salvatore Ferragamo arrived in the United States and soon after moved to the sunny West Coast. That same year the Panama-Pacific International Exposition opened in San Francisco, where Marcello Piacentini's Italian Citadel made waves and marked the beginning of the powerful and lasting influence of the Renaissance style on the local architectural language.Against the backdrop of Italian emigration to the States - the fil rouge running through the entire book - and of a Hollywood on its way to becoming the world capital of the young film industry, the volume tells of personalities who were already myths in their day, such as Enrico Caruso, Rudolph Valentino, Lina Cavalieri, and Tina Modotti; cinematic milestones like Cabiria , Ben-Hur , and Romola ; the star system and iconic directors; the important part played by Italian musicians in the birth of jazz; and the thousands of Italians who worked "behind the scenes," making a vital contribution to the creation of the Hollywood myth.This complex story, told both in words and in images, paints a varied and multifaceted picture of the "set" on which the Shoemaker of Dreams began his thrilling creative adventure in America.

Gianni Rondolino
Martano Editore

Vito Zagarrio
Marsilio editori

Il libro, scritto a più mani, offre un panorama completo dell'ultimo decennio del cinema italiano. Il mercato è omologato e appiattito sulle richieste dei funzionari televisivi, non esistono leggi adeguate. Eppure gli anni Novanta sono stati uno dei periodi più fervidi della nostra storia cinematografica, si sono anche fatti alcuni splendidi film, sono nati autori di grande spessore, si sono sperimentate tendenze, stili, formati, supporti nuovi e inediti, si sono sviluppati gruppi, movimenti, modelli produttivi alternativi. In Appendice: dati statistici, quadro produttivo cinematografico, bibliografia, filmografia.

Roman Polanski
Bompiani

Ingmar Bergman
Garzanti Editore

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Henri Agel
Jean-Pierre delarge

AA.VV.
Nuova Timec