Lecture 6 Film Theory 3

Lecture 6- Film Theory
7th December
Italian Vernacular Cinema


-1970's"film is not the art of Scholars"
Felini is taken seriously
- people comment of the superficiality of the middle and upper classes
Films are based and very much linked to wealth style and sophistication, very much seen as being worth of critique
La Dolce Vita
-Foreigner entering Italy, this new country no one is sure about, very stylish and endearing
Drastic raise in Italian Cinema
- Increasing audiences willing to go to the cinema
-Linked to economics, history and social context


Terza Visione- Less populated areas means cheaper tickets
Italian working classes in the 1970's

• Many went to the cinema every night
• Conventions of watching film are changing constantly, they are already drastically different
• People are now able the eat drink and even chat whilst at the cinema,
• the whole experience is much more casual then in the past, people can now come and go during films

Wagstaff's audiences are linked more to tourism, and attending the cinema as more of a social outing.(Filone Genre)

Finlone

Giallo 

• Detective novels
• Mondo Canibal film
• Polliziottoesco- police procedural 
• Spagetti Westerns

The Goods, The Bad and The Ugly (1966) Serio Lzone

• Use of sound
• use of eyeliner and cutting 
• difference in scale
• use of camera to tell story 
• catholic references
• use of music
• little dialog
• Fragmentation of body

Giallo

Italian for Yellow and seemed from a series of cheap paperback crime and mystery novels


Giallo's directors - Mario Bava Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci
The fins were considered to be stylish and expressionistic but at the same time they challange our senses and tankards of good taste.
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) (Mario Bava)- First one with defining characteristics
Amateur Detectives as tourist

• usually british or african coming into Italy 
• Usually work in creative industries and have a "jet set lifestyle"

Giallo's Killers

• Black hat, gloves and Coat
• Undercover look about them
• Priests often used as a part of gender confusion 

Dario Argento

• Italian Hitchcock
• Places himself in th film as the killers black gloved hands
• Extremely visually stunning
• Shot with no sound o most films were dubbed
• He was the son of Salvador Argento who was a film producer