An Investigative Cinema Politics and Modernization in Italian, French, and American Film /

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 immedia...

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Main Author: Cilento, Fabrizio (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Motion pictures.
Motion pictures-European influences.
Motion pictures-United States.
Historiography.
ISBN:9783319926810
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Any Resemblance to Real Persons or Actual Facts Is [Not] Purely Coincidental
  • 2. Neorealism and the Double Stain: Television and Italian High Modernist Filmmakers
  • 3. Objectively False: French Cinema and the Algerian Question
  • 4. Stars and Stardom in Investigative Cinema: The Movies of Gian Maria Volonté and Gael García Bernal
  • 5. The Ontology of Replay: The Zapruder Video and American Conspiracy Films
  • 6. Unidentified Narrative Objects: The Anti-Mafia and No-Global Films as Transmedia Adaptations
  • 7. The Ontology of the Digital: War on Terror and Post-9/11 Visual Culture.

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