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Place, Setting, Perspective

Narrative Space in the Films of Nanni Moretti
  • ISBN-13: 9781611476903
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Eleanor Andrews
  • Price: AUD $216.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/11/2014
  • Format: Hardback 258 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Film theory & criticism [APFA]
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Place, Setting, Perspective examines the films of the Italian filmmaker, Nanni Moretti, from a fresh viewpoint, employing the increasingly significant research area of space within a filmic text. The book is conceived with the awareness that space cannot be studied only in aesthetic or narrative terms: social, political, and cultural aspects of narrated spaces are equally important if a thorough appraisal is to be achieved of an oeuvre such as Moretti's, which is profoundly associated with socio-political commentary and analysis. After an exploration of various existing frameworks of narrative space in film, the book offers a particular definition of the term based on the notions of Place, Setting, and Perspective. Place relates to the physical aspect of narrative space and specifically involves cityscapes, landscapes, interiors, and exteriors in the real world. Setting concerns genre characteristics of narrative space, notably its differentiated use in melodrama, detective stories, fantasy narratives, and gender based scenarios. Perspective encompasses the point of view taken optically by the camera which supports the standpoint of Moretti's personal philosophy expressed through the aesthetic aspects which he employs to create narrative space. The study is based on a close textual analysis of Moretti's eleven major feature films to date, using the formal film language of mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound. The aim is to show how Moretti selects, organizes, constructs, assembles, and manipulates the many elements of narrative space into an entire work of art, to enable meanings and pleasures for the spectator.
Acknowledgments Clarifications List of Figures Chapter One: Introduction Part One: Place Chapter Two: Nearly All Roads Lead To Rome Chapter Three: Battling With Nature Chapter Four: Inside Chapter Five: Outside Part Two: Setting Chapter Six: Laughter and Tears Chapter Seven: The Scene of the Crime Chapter Eight: Sweet Dreams? Chapter Nine: Whose Space Is It Anyway? Part Three: Perspective Chapter Ten: Inside and Outside the Frame Chapter Eleven: A Certain Point of View Chapter Twelve: An Artist at Work Filmography Bibliography
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