ITALST292 Lecture Notes - The Province, Italian Identity, Men'S Major Golf Championships
4 Apr 2013
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Image-watching by mechanical means dates to 18th century venice: domenica tiepolo"s two frescoes, entitled il mondo nuovo (the new world) show lantern device; first example of visual stimulation via mechanical means. Peep show boxes: people could look into a little box and they could watch a little mini version of the play. Silent films: filoteo alberini (1865- 1937), inventor of albertini kinetograph. Illiterate population: people-watching opportunity, major movie theatres opened after 1905; prior, was cinema ambulante (itinerant cinema) Itinerant cinema: when people would move around by train or wagon and go city to city to show them films. It was a big step forward because it was a longer film. Subject: breaching of rome"s porta pia by italian troops, 1870=1870 annexation of. Silent film genre: historical epic (most popular films) Lavish sets and large crowd scenes: topics: roman epics, italy"s literary classics, melodramas from verismo.
