{"id":2513,"date":"2011-04-15T15:26:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T15:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2011-04-15T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T15:26:19","slug":"the-new-neapolitan-cinema-by-alex-marlow-mann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news-about-books-and-magazines-about-italian-cinema\/the-new-neapolitan-cinema-by-alex-marlow-mann\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Neapolitan Cinema by Alex Marlow-Mann"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2514\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nnc.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2514\" title=\"nnc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nnc.jpg\" alt=\"The New Neapolitan Cinema by Alex Marlow-Mann\" width=\"183\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nnc.jpg 183w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nnc-58x88.jpg 58w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nnc-98x148.jpg 98w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nnc-20x31.jpg 20w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nnc-25x38.jpg 25w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/nnc-143x215.jpg 143w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Neapolitan Cinema by Alex Marlow-Mann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Must mention a new book by Alex Marlow-Mann: The New Neapolitan Cinema, which has just come out on Edinburgh University Press.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the blurb:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Vito and the Others<\/em> (1991), <em>Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician<\/em> (1992) and <em>Libera<\/em> (1993), the debuts of three young Neapolitan filmmakers, stood out  dramatically from the landscape of Italian cinema in the early 1990s. On  the back of their critical success, over the next decade and a half,  Naples became a thriving centre for film production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In this first  study in English of one of the most vital and stimulating currents in  contemporary European Cinema, Alex Marlow-Mann provides a detailed,  multi-faceted and provocative study of this distinct regional tradition.  In tracing the movement&#8217;s relationship with the popular musical  melodramas previously produced in Naples, he reveals how contemporary  Neapolitan filmmakers have interrogated, subverted and reconfigured  cinematic convention as part of a through-going re-examination of  Neapolitan identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Key features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"> analyses of over 45 contemporary Italian films, including Paolo Sorrentino&#8217;s <em>The Consequences of Love<\/em>, Mario Martone&#8217;s <em>L&#8217;amore molesto<\/em>, Antonio Capuano&#8217;s <em>Pianese Nunzio: 14 in May<\/em> and Vincenzo Marra&#8217;s <em>Sailing Home<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"> a theoretical discussion of the concept of regional cinema<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"> an examination of the movement in its broader context as both product  and critique of Mayor Bassolino&#8217;s &#8216;Neapolitan Renaissance&#8217;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"> a study of one European film industry in terms of legislation, production, distribution and exhibition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Alex  Marlow-Mann has taught Italian cinema at the universities of Reading,  Cardiff and Leeds and has published numerous articles on the subject. He  first became interested in Neapolitan cinema when living in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Alex is a jolly nice chap and it&#8217;s a fascinatng subject, a lot of the best Italian films around at the moment are coming out of Naples.\u00a0 You can pick it up from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/New-Neapolitan-Cinema-Traditions-World\/dp\/0748640665\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk']);\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Must mention a new book by Alex Marlow-Mann: The New Neapolitan Cinema, which has just come out on Edinburgh University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[838],"tags":[892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2516,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}