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The Cinema of Italy

Pasolini, a unique case in the Italian panorama
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A case apart from the cultural and cinematographic landscape of the times is Pier Paolo Pasolini, director, actor and author, who in his work showed an opposition to the morals of the times. A true anti-conformist, until his death (occurred under obscure circumstances in 1975) he never tired of fighting at all levels (literature, cinema and politics) to promote new values to conformism and the consumerism of the Italian society between the 1960s and the 1970s. Pasolini's first films (including shocking short movies like "Che cosa sono le nuvole?" and "La ricotta") deeply impress for the extraordinary poetry and lyricism in every frame and scene shown to the audience. Pasolini was never "in the closet" and never denied his preference for a communist ideology, he is considered one the most culturally influential person of his time, although his political views would be considered extreme and his works were often discriminated.
The cinema of Italy
  1. The beginning of the cinema industry
  2. The Golden Age
  3. Avandgarde
  4. First stars and propaganda films
  5. The great crisis
  6. Cinecittà and the monopoly
  7. White telephones
  8. The neorealist season
  9. The cinema of author of the 50s, 60s and 70s
  10. Pasolini, a unique case in the Italian panorama
  11. The great season of the comedy
  12. The social and political cinema
  13. The spaghetti western
  14. Horror and thriller
  15. Splatter, erotic comedy, trash
  16. The crisis of 1980s
  17. The 1990s
  18. Other authors of the Italian cinema
  19. Animation
  20. The new millennium
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