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The study examines popular genres in Italian cinema of 1960s and 1970s as a sociocultural phenomenon in the context of cultural background and film industry. The text is structured as interdisciplinary interpretation and explores the theme in the level of textual and inter-textual analysis. It includes wide framework of various aspects related to questions of the subject of study. It examines also Italian genre terminology and titles of some films that belong to popular cycles and series of concrete genres. It demonstrates that interests and intentions of filmmakers, producers, distributors and the audience with regard to film genres are absolutely different. The text is based on methodological approach of interdisciplinary conception of history of Italian cinema that was elaborated by film historian and theorist Gian Piero. The first part of the study is focused on two Italian genres: peplo or storico-mitologico (in the foreign context, the genre is known as peplum or sword and sandals) and western all‘italiana (in popular and academic writing about cinema known also as spaghetti-western).
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The study examines popular genres in Italian cinema of 60's – 70's as a sociocultural phenomenon in the context of cultural background and film industry. The text structured as inter-disciplinal interpretation explores the theme in the level of textual and inter-textual analysis and includes wide framework of various aspects related to questions of elected subject of study. The essay examines also Italian genre terminology and titles of some films that belongs into popular cycles and series of concrete genres. The study demonstrates on some examples that interests and intentions of filmmakers, producers, distributors and audience with regard to film genres are absolutely different. The text is based on methodological approach of inter-disciplinal conception of history of Italian cinema that applies Italian film historian and theorist Gian Piero Brunetta in his long series of books and several times revised and completed work.
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This paper analyses and examines film music and soundtracks using the example of selected categories of popular genres of Italian cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. The focus of interpretative interest is the trans-genre, sociocultural and industrial meanings and discourses of Italian film music as an integral part of popular culture at the time when soundtracks gained new importance as Italian popular culture was transforming. The article interprets the new compositional methods of Italian film composers, the cultural and industrial relationship between music labels and film production companies and especially the popular cultural connections of film music with particular popular genres of Italian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. It also takes into account the 1950s, 1980s and 1990s. There is an emphasis on the categories of popular genres, such as “western all'italiana” (Italian/Spaghetti Westerns), “erotico all'italiana” (Italian erotic films) and “musicarello all'italiana” (Italian musical films), that were part of the main industrial discourse of Italian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s.
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This study examines transformations of genre discourses in relation to the sociocultural background and film industry in period from 1990 to 2012. The main intention of essay is reasoning and explanation of factors that co-formulate criteria, system and various strategic operations in Italian film industry in the context of popular film genres after a long period of great popularity of popular Italian genres regarding audience and various foreign distributions in the 50's – 80's. The important method of contemporary Italian popular cinema in the framework of dialogue with film audience and also new concepts of popular spectacle is return to some tested forms of genres from previous periods of Italian cinema. The author ś analysis is based on the academic resources of Italian film historian and theorist Gian Piero Brunetta, who examines Italian cinema as a complex of interdisciplinary system.
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