An investigative cinema
Subtitle: politics and modernization in Italian, French, and American film
By: Fabrizio Cilento
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9783319926803
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Motion pictures; Social aspects; Political aspects; History
Description: This book traces the development of investigative cinema, whose main characteristic lies in reconstructing actual events, political crises, and conspiracies. These documentary-like films refrain from a simplistic reconstruction of historical events and are mainly concerned with what does not immediately appear on the surface of events. Consequently, they raise questions about the nature of the "truth" promoted by institutions, newspapers, and media reports. By highlighting unanswered questions, they leave us with a lack of clarity, and the questioning of documentation becomes the actual narrative. Investigative cinema is examined in relation to the historical conjunctures of the "economic miracle" in Italy, the simultaneous decolonization and reordering of culture in France, the waves of globalization and neoliberalism in post-dictatorial Latin America, and the post-Watergate, post-9/11 climate in US society. Investigative cinema is exemplified by the films Salvatore Giuliano, The Battle of Algiers, The Parallax View, Gomorrah, Zero Dark Thirty, and Citizenfour.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275), filmography (pages 275-284), and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Introduction: Any Resemblance to Real Persons or Actual Facts Is [Not] Purely Coincidental -- -- 2.; title: Neorealism and the Double Stain: Television and Italian High Modernist Filmmakers --; title: Images of Television --; title: A Split Soul --; title: The Interview as Self-Criticism: On Pasolini's Metatelevisual and Extracinematographic Performativity --; title: Shifting the Present: Francesco Rosi's Salvatore Giuliano --; title: Evening Rituals: Marco Ferreri's Dillinger Is Dead -- -- 3.; title: Objectively False: French Cinema and the Algerian Question --; title: A Cinema of Absence --; title: A Faceless Enemy: Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers -- -- 4.; title: Stars and Stardom in Investigative Cinema: The Movies of Gian Maria Volonte and Gael Garcia Bernal --; title: Gian Maria Volonte and the Moro Affair --; title: Volonte Plays Volonte' --; title: Moro 1: The Hermit Murderess --; title: Moro 2: The Two-Faced Janus --; title: In and Out of the Jungle: The Politics of Gael Garcia Bernal --; title: Between Marcos and Che Guevara --; title: Even the Rain: A Confluence of Cinematic and Historical Temporalities --; title: No and the Aesthetics of Television -- -- 5.; title: The Ontology of Replay: The Zapruder Video and American Conspiracy Films --; title: Back and Forward --; title: For ward and Back --; title: Let It Bleed (Side One) --; title: Rewind: Notes on Direct Cinema --; title: Let It Bleed (Side Two) --; title: Screening the Flow --; title: A Conversation with Albert Maysles -- -- 6.; title: Unidentified Narrative Objects: The Anti-Mafia and No-Global Films as Transmedia Adaptations --; title: Transmission Test One: An SOS to the World (Radio Free Sicily 98.1 MHz) --; title: Transmission Test Two: The Director and the Broomstick (Radio Bologna 105.0 MHz) --; title: One Hundred Flowers, One Thousand Channels (Any Available Frequency) --; title: Interferences: Marco Tullio Giordana's One Hundred Steps (Radio Aut 98.8 MHz) --; title: Somewhere Else: Guido Chiesa's Working Slowly (Radio Alice 100.6 MHz) --; title: Network Narrative in Daniele Vicari's Diaz. Don't Clean Up This Blood (Radio GAP 87.8 MHz) --; title: Saviano, Garrone, Gomorrah: Noir and Neo-Noir in the Land of the Camorra -- -- 7.; title: The Ontology of the Digital: War on Terror and Post-9/11 Visual Culture --; title: The Aesthetics of the Procedural in Post-9/11 Cinema --; title: Two Documentary "Portraits": Citizenfour and Risk.