CIN240H1 Lecture 10: lecture 10
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Metaphor for how the italian film industry operated in its golden era. Overlapping and successive currents and trends, faith in formulas. Variations in the tradition of a current trend: between 1967-1981, the italian film industry produced over 300 criminal-type films (then it died because of television, which they had adopted late in the italian south) Produced the most per year in the mid 70s: southern spanish landscape was traded for new iconography of the modern-day police. Italy had been fairly free of political violence for two decades, except in the south with the. Mafia bombings and assassinations once again became a part of the italian drama. Italy in the 1970s was represented as lawless and abhorrent. Thursday, june 15, 2017: uses multiple strategies to position itself in a reflection of authenticity and true crime. Use of expos rhetoric, either in the title, or in title cards that say this film is.
