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Da 'città del silenzio' a città delle macchine

Prato nel cinema degli anni '50
  • Alessandro Bernardi,

One of the most beautiful films of Italian cinematic Neorealism, Giovanna, a real pearl by Gillo Pontecorvo dated 1955, is almost completely unknown to the public. Entirely filmed in Prato, inside an old factory, now dismantled, and fully interpreted by workers and employees of the various textile companies of the city, the film tells the struggle of the workers to defend their jobs against the thirst for profits of the bosses and also against their own husbands who want them to stay at home to look after the children. It is not only a magnificent document of industrial archaeology, but also and above all the portrait of a new woman, modern and ancient at the same time.

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Alessandro Bernardi

University of Florence, Italy

Alessandro Bernardi is Professor of Film History at the University of Florence and has been visiting professor at various European universities. He has published numerous books, including Marco Bellocchio (La Nuova Italia, 1978) Kubrick e il cinema come arte del visibile, Parma, Pratiche 1990, Introduzione alla retorica del cinema (Florence, Le Lettere, 2004), Il paesaggio nel cinema italiano, (Marsilio, Venice 2001), and the recent L'avventura del cinematografo. Storia di un'arte e di un linguaggio, (Marsilio, Venice, 2007).
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Book Title

Da 'città del silenzio' a città delle macchine

Book Subtitle

Prato nel cinema degli anni '50

Authors

Alessandro Bernardi

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

40

Publication Year

2010

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© 2010 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/978-88-6655-013-6

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978-88-6655-010-5

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978-88-6655-013-6

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978-88-5518-912-5

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Pluriverso – Quaderni della Biblioteca del Polo Universitario di Prato

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2704-5757

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2705-0394

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