Calligrafismo
Calligrafismo (En: caligraphism) is an Italian style of filmmaking in the first half of the 1940s.
Characteristics of the style[]
A scene from La bella addormentata (1942)
In the 1940s the two most significant styles of the Italian movie scene were the telefoni bianchi (En: white telephones) and calligrafismo.
Calligrafismo is in a sharp contrast to telefoni bianchi-American style comedies and is rather artistic, highly formalistic, expressive in complexity and deals mainly with contemporary literary material,[1] above all the pieces of Italian realism from authors like Corrado Alvaro, Ennio Flaiano, Emilio Cecchi, Francesco Pasinetti, Vitaliano Brancati, and Umberto Barbaro.[2]
The most important directors and scriptwriters[]
Scene from Tragica notte (1942)
Directors[]
Scriptwriters[]
References[]
Sources[]
- Roberto Campari, Il fantasma del bello. Iconologia del cinema italiano, Marsilio, Venezia, 1994. ISBN 88-317-5898-5
- ISBN 88-317-5774-1
- Lontani dalla gloria (Narrativa) (Italian Edition)
- After Neorealism: Italian Filmmakers and Their Films; Essays and Interviews
Italian film genres and movements | ||
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| 1900s-1940s | ||
| 1950s-1980s |
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Categories:
- Italian filmographies