Martyn Conterio
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781906733834
- eISBN:
- 9781800342156
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781906733834.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter introduces Mario Bava, who was born on 29 July 1914 in Sanremo, Liguria and a 'figlio d'arte' or a child of the arts. It talks about Bava's father who provided his ties to the film ...
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This chapter introduces Mario Bava, who was born on 29 July 1914 in Sanremo, Liguria and a 'figlio d'arte' or a child of the arts. It talks about Bava's father who provided his ties to the film world, the sculptor and cinematographer Eugenio Bava, whose artistry and pioneering experimental photography was utilised in the burgeoning Italian movie-making industry of the 1900s. It also recounts how Bava stepped in to complete a low-budget film titled I vampiri after its director, Riccardo Freda, walked off set. The chapter mentions Julian Petley, who likened Bava to his compatriot, Lucio Fulci, in the City of the Living Dead review for Film & Filming and qualified both as metteur en scène directors. It also describes 1960, which is considered a fine vintage year in the illustrious and often controversial annals of horror cinema.Less
This chapter introduces Mario Bava, who was born on 29 July 1914 in Sanremo, Liguria and a 'figlio d'arte' or a child of the arts. It talks about Bava's father who provided his ties to the film world, the sculptor and cinematographer Eugenio Bava, whose artistry and pioneering experimental photography was utilised in the burgeoning Italian movie-making industry of the 1900s. It also recounts how Bava stepped in to complete a low-budget film titled I vampiri after its director, Riccardo Freda, walked off set. The chapter mentions Julian Petley, who likened Bava to his compatriot, Lucio Fulci, in the City of the Living Dead review for Film & Filming and qualified both as metteur en scène directors. It also describes 1960, which is considered a fine vintage year in the illustrious and often controversial annals of horror cinema.
Bruce Isaacs
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- April 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190889951
- eISBN:
- 9780190889999
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190889951.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Alfred Hitchcock’s notion of a “pure cinema” has continued to fascinate and perplex film audiences, critics, and theorists alike. The concept first emerged loosely in the 1920s, as European ...
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Alfred Hitchcock’s notion of a “pure cinema” has continued to fascinate and perplex film audiences, critics, and theorists alike. The concept first emerged loosely in the 1920s, as European avant-garde artists and intellectuals grappled with the essence of the moving image as an aesthetic form. But what, precisely, was pure cinema as an artistic philosophy and style? How did it evolve within Hitchcock’s body of work, and how was a pure cinema artistic style then developed by the filmmakers who came after Hitchcock, such as Dario Argento and Brian De Palma? The Art of Pure Cinema connects film history and philosophies of image and sound to better understand the legacy of this aesthetic tradition.Less
Alfred Hitchcock’s notion of a “pure cinema” has continued to fascinate and perplex film audiences, critics, and theorists alike. The concept first emerged loosely in the 1920s, as European avant-garde artists and intellectuals grappled with the essence of the moving image as an aesthetic form. But what, precisely, was pure cinema as an artistic philosophy and style? How did it evolve within Hitchcock’s body of work, and how was a pure cinema artistic style then developed by the filmmakers who came after Hitchcock, such as Dario Argento and Brian De Palma? The Art of Pure Cinema connects film history and philosophies of image and sound to better understand the legacy of this aesthetic tradition.
