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Cinema of Italy

Italian cinema has influenced film movements worldwide since its beginning.

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As of 2018, Italian films have won 14 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, the most of any country.[1] Works produced within Italy's borders or helmed by directors of Italian nationality constitute the nation's cinema.[1] From its earliest days, the film output of Italy has left its mark on cinematic trends across the globe.[1]

Making and release

Vittorio Calcina, a collaborator of the Lumière Brothers, is considered the first Italian director.[2] Calcina filmed in 1896 the first Italian film, believed lost until rediscovered by the Cineteca Nazionale in 1979.[3] Giovanni Pastrone's 1914 film Cabiria was the first epic film ever made and the first film shown in the White House.[4] The oldest European avant-garde cinema movement, Italian futurism, took place in the late 1910s.[5]

The sound cinema arrived in Italy in 1930, three years after The Jazz Singer.[6] The Venice Film Festival, the oldest film festival in the world, was established in 1932.[7] The earliest motion pictures created in Italy appeared in 1896, shot across the country's principal urban centers.[8] A swift expansion of Italy's film sector occurred during the 1910s; by 1912, Turin alone saw the creation of 569 motion pictures.[9]

What the cited sources add

The "Il cinema delle avanguardie" account states that the first and oldest avant-garde cinema movement was futurist cinema.[10] That same source notes that La Thaïs o Perfido intrigo (1917) by Anton Giulio Bragaglia is the only surviving example of futurist cinema.[10] The "La Biennale di Venezia – The origin" account confirms the Venice Film Festival in 1932 was the first film festival in history.[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Cinema of Italy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bondanella, "A History of Italian Cinema", A&C Black, 2009; Luzzi, "A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film", JHU Press, 30 March 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Cinema of Italy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "L'œuvre cinématographique des frères Lumière – Pays: Italie"; "Il Cinema Ritrovato – Italia 1896 – Grand Tour Italiano" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Cinema of Italy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Cineteca: pericolosa polveriera per 50 anni di cinema italiano" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Cinema of Italy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Cinematografia", Treccani, 1970, p. 226; Fioravanti, "La "storia" senza storia. Racconti del passato tra letteratura, cinema e televisione", Morlacchi Editore, 2006, p. 121; Klepper, "Silent Films, 1877-1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies", McFarland, 1999, p. 78; Robertson, "Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats", Abbeville Press, 1991, p. 217; Alberti, "Screen Ages: A Survey of American Cinema", Routledge, 2014, p. 45 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Cinema of Italy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Il cinema delle avanguardie", 30 September 2017 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Cinema of Italy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Katz, "Italy", HarperResource, 2001, p. 682–685 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Cinema of Italy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Anderson, "Venice: David Gordon Green's 'Manglehorn,' Abel Ferrara's 'Pasolini' in Competition Lineup", The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2014; Valck, "Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice", Routledge, 26 February 2016; "Addio, Lido: Last Postcards from the Venice Film Festival"; "50 unmissable film festivals", Variety, 8 September 2007 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Cinema of Italy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "L'œuvre cinématographique des frères Lumière – Pays: Italie"; "Il Cinema Ritrovato – Italia 1896 – Grand Tour Italiano"; "L'œuvre cinématographique des frères Lumière – Pays: Italie"; "Il Cinema Ritrovato – Italia 1896 – Grand Tour Italiano" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Cinema of Italy" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Cinematografia", Treccani, 1970, p. 226; Brunetta, "Storia del cinema mondiale", Einaudi, 2002, p. 38; Katz, "Italy", HarperResource, 2001, p. 682–685 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. "Il cinema delle avanguardie", 30 September 2017. facts only, no text reused. brevestoriadelcinema.org
  11. "La Biennale di Venezia – The origin", 7 April 2017. facts only, no text reused. labiennale.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Cinema of Italy (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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