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The Cinema of Italy

White telephones
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The season of the white telephones lasted only for a brief period of time. The name came from the presence of white telephones seen in some scenes of movies produced during this time, a symptom of social well-being: a status symbol to differentiate from the black telephones, a more popular color. Contemporary film critics prefer to call these movies in the style of the Hungarian Comedy, because, although the movies were produced in Italy, almost all of them used themes and settings from Hungarian authors and therefore taking place in Hungary, also for censorship reasons (the preferred subject of these comedies, was a threat of adultery or divorce, unthinkable in Italy during those years): the city of Bucharest is often named, or another definition to this genre is Cinema Deco for the overwhelming presence of d?cor that recalls the international style of Art Deco, very popular in this period.
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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