Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema

Dr Anthony Cristiano is Lecturer in Digital Media and Journalism at Wilfrid Laurier University. Dr Carlo Coen is Course Director in the Department of Languages, Literature and Linguistics at York University, Toronto

By providing a rich and insightful account of experimental and independent Italian cinema from the 1960s to our present, the edited collection Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema: Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century is poised to become a cornerstone in the scholarship on these topics. Readers in search of detailed genealogies and legacies of artists such as Marinella Pirelli, Gianfranco Brebbia, Mirko Locatelli and Massimo Bacigalupo or phenomena like the Milanese film festival Filmmaker, mostly unheard-of in the English-speaking academic world, will find in this book an essential source.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Filmmaker and the Milanese independent cinema of the 1980s and 1990sDonatella Maraschin and Paola NasiniChapter 2: Light and Liminal: Marinella Pirelli’s CinemaMatilde NardelliChapter 3: From Vertov to Cine-Journals: Cesare Zavattini’s Experimental JourneyCarlo CoenChapter 4: Gianfranco Brebbia. The ‘Absurd’, Expanded Quality of Experimental Cinema (1962-1973)Donatella ValenteChapter 5: Italian Family Films: The Case of the Archivio Nazionale di BolognaLaura CeccarelliChapter 6: Travelling the world. The essay films of Massimo Bacigalupo (1968-1977)Donatella Valente Chapter 7: Tales of Courage: Trade Stories of Italian Independent CinemaEdward BowenChapter 8: Independence as Opposition? Redefining Political Cinema through the Case of Mirko LocatelliGloria DagninoChapter 9: Niccolò Bruna’s Ethical Process as Social Engagement: Upholding Human Stories against a Backdrop of GlobalizationDavid H. Fleming and Filippo GilardiChapter 10: The Paradox of ‘Independence’ in Cyberspace: The Case of Italian Experimental and Independent CinemaAnthony Cristiano