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Article: Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography, Stylistics, Politics.
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- September 22, 1995
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That now almost extinct species, the moviegoer looking for an alternative to the Hollywood movie, looked chiefly to French film in the Thirties and to Italian film in the years after the war. Promotion and distribution had something to do with it - the remarkable Japanese cinema of the Thirties, for example, remained unseen in the West - but the quality and appeal of the films themselves surely entered into it as well. France before the war was a nation soon to be defeated; Italy after the war was a nation emerging from defeat. Yet they triumphed in their filmmaking. Art - even the art of the lone unappreciated genius, Emily Dickinson or Vincent van Gogh - is made in society ...
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