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Better. Ossessione

Autore: Carrie Leighton

Numero di pagine: 415

Non esiste veleno senza antidoto. Non esiste inizio senza fine. La storia di Thomas e Vanessa è giunta al capolinea. Bugie e tradimenti li hanno allontanati, e non sempre è possibile riparare quello che si è rotto. Quando le loro strade si dividono, la ragazza decide di allontanarsi da Corvallis. Ma il viaggio non basta a restituirle la serenità, in lei cova ancora un sordo risentimento verso l’uomo che le ha spezzato il cuore. Nel frattempo, Thomas si è rimesso in riga, buttandosi alle spalle gli eccessi e impegnandosi ad affrontare i demoni che lo tormentano una volta per tutte. Dopo essere tornati all’università, la rabbia che entrambi provano l’uno per l’altra sfocia in una guerra fatta di scontri e provocazioni. L’attrazione che li lega, però, resta bruciante, come un fuoco che cova sotto la cenere e aspetta una scintilla per divampare. Basta poco a farli esplodere, soprattutto quando nei paraggi c’è Logan, una presenza ormai costante al fianco di Vanessa. Dopo la tempesta può tornare a splendere il sereno? Un grande amore può bastare a salvarci? Thomas e Vanessa stanno per scoprirlo.

Meravigliosa Ossessione

Autore: Cristiana Danila Formetta

Numero di pagine: 102

A Sweet Christmas

Autore: Aa.vv.

Numero di pagine: 157

Le storie di Natale di RIGEL E NICA, I FRATELLI HARRISON, ISABELLA E CHRIS, DEREK E SIA, THOMAS E VANESSA, ABRAEL E VINE. Romantico, passionale, contrastato, il sentimento più dolce risplende in una collezione dedicata al periodo più magico dell’anno. Cinque racconti firmati da Erin Doom, A.J. Foster, Rokia, Carrie Leighton e F. Vanessa Arcadipane ci scaldano il cuore con incanto e delicatezza. Le autrici confezionano un incredibile regalo a tema natalizio per le lettrici e i lettori, riaccompagnandoci negli universi narrativi che più ci hanno fatto emozionare, facendoci rivivere ancora una volta le atmosfere uniche e le trame segrete delle loro storie più amate. Nica e Rigel stanno per suggellare il loro amore, non senza imprevisti. Nel giorno più atteso, infatti, il ragazzo scompare senza spiegazioni. Il vero amore, però, sa aspettare con pazienza. Le feste in casa dei fratelli Harrison sono una cosa seria. Nel loro chalet in Vermont si respira un’atmosfera sfavillante, ma questo Natale sarà diverso dagli altri. Sia e Derek stanno trascorrendo il loro primo Natale insieme, quando l’auto li abbandona in mezzo alla neve. Finiranno per trovare rifugio in un...

A Companion to Martin Scorsese

Autore: Aaron Baker

Numero di pagine: 496

A Companion to Martin Scorsese A Companion to Martin Scorsese “This valuable book brings the exceptional scale of Martin Scorsese’s film work into clear view. His achievements are monumental, and the essays collected in this work provide wonderfully detailed and vivid analyses of his oeuvre. A comprehensive study of the most exciting filmmaker working today.” Robert Burgoyne, University of St Andrews A Companion to Martin Scorsese, Revised Edition is a comprehensive collection of original essays assessing the career of one of America’s most prominent contemporary filmmakers. The first reference work of its kind, this book contains contributions from influential scholars in North America and Europe. The essays use a variety of analytic approaches to study numerous aspects of Scorsese’s work, from his earliest films to his place within the history of American and world cinema. They consider his work in relation to auteur theory, the genres in which he has worked, his use of popular music, and his recent involvement with film preservation. Several of the essays offer fresh interpretations of some of Scorsese’s most influential films, including Mean Streets, Taxi Driver,...

Realist Cinema as World Cinema

Autore: Lúcia Nagib

Numero di pagine: 205

This book presents the bold and original proposal to replace the general appellation of ‘world cinema’ with the more substantive concept of ‘realist cinema’. Veering away from the usual focus on modes of reception and spectatorship, it locates instead cinematic realism in the way films are made. The volume is structured across three innovative categories of realist modes of production: ‘noncinema’, or a cinema that aspires to be life itself; ‘intermedial passages’, or films that incorporate other artforms as a channel to historical and political reality; and ‘total cinema’, or films moved by a totalising impulse, be it towards the total artwork, total history or universalising landscapes. Though mostly devoted to recent productions, each part starts with the analysis of foundational classics, which have paved the way for future realist endeavours, proving that realism is timeless and inherent in cinema from its origin.

Tragedie, a cura di Nicola Bruscoli

Autore: Vittorio Alfieri

Numero di pagine: 440

Cinema is the Strongest Weapon

Autore: Lorenzo Fabbri

Numero di pagine: 295

A deep dive into Italian cinema under Mussolini’s regime and the filmmakers who used it as a means of antifascist resistance Looking at Italy’s national film industry under the rule of Benito Mussolini and in the era that followed, Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon examines how cinema was harnessed as a political tool by both the reigning fascist regime and those who sought to resist it. Covering a range of canonical works alongside many of their neglected contemporaries, this book explores film’s mutable relationship to the apparatuses of state power and racial capitalism. Exploiting realism’s aesthetic, experiential, and affective affordances, Mussolini’s biopolitical project employed cinema to advance an idealized vision of life under fascism and cultivate the basis for a homogenous racial identity. In this book, Lorenzo Fabbri crucially underscores realism’s susceptibility to manipulation from diametrically opposed political perspectives, highlighting the queer, Communist, Jewish, and feminist filmmakers who subverted Mussolini’s notion that “cinema is the regime’s strongest weapon” by developing film narratives and film forms that challenged the prevailing...

Passion and Defiance

Autore: Mira Liehm

Numero di pagine: 412

Since World War II, aesthetic impulses generated in Italy have swept through every film industry in the world, and in her book Mira Liehm analyses the roots in literature, philosophy, and contemporary Italian life which have contributed to this extraordinary vigor. An introductory chapter offers a unique overview of the Italian cinema before 1942. It is followed by a full and profound discussion of neorealism in its heyday, its difficult aftermath in the fifties, the glorious sixties, and finally by an analysis of the contemporary cinematic crisis. Mira Liehm has known personally many of the leading figures in Italian cinema, and her work is rich in insights into their lives and working methods. This impressive scholarly work immediately outclasses all other available Italian film histories. It will be essential reading for anyone seriously interested in the cinema.

The Cinema of Economic Miracles

Autore: Angelo Restivo

Numero di pagine: 228

A sophisticated theoretical treatment of post-war Italian Cinema.

Films and Filming

Numero di pagine: 764

DIRITTO E VIOLENZA

Autore: Maria Pina Fersini

Numero di pagine: 202

With the rise of modernity, law faces an irreducible contradiction. It must stem the State's available strength, while at the same time use this strength to make its decisions binding. The author, starting from this paradox, analyses the legal, philosophical and literary discourses of modernity to find the right tools to properly differentiate law and "vis", overcoming two philosophical and juridical traditions: the one depicting law as a Leviathan, and the one wanting to make it immune to all forms of violence. In particular, through an unedited reading of Kafka and Melville's narratives, she demonstrates how the modern legal systems, rather than just being instruments of control, are dreams and fantasies of non-violence.

Eros, Variations on an Old Theme

Numero di pagine: 1028

The Italian Cinema

Autore: Vernon Jarratt

Numero di pagine: 164

Luchino Visconti

Autore: Geoffrey Nowell-smith

Numero di pagine: 264

Luchino Visconti's career as a film-maker began in the 1930s when he escaped the culture of fascist Italy to work with Jean Renoir in the France of the Popular Front. This is a study of this director.