The Cinema of Ermanno Olmi

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by Ian Pettigrew

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Ermanno Olmi

Keywords

Ermanno Olmi, director, Italy

Publishing date

2020

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 217 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4766-6589-4

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Book Presentation:
Ermanno Olmi is one of cinema’s great, unsung filmmakers. Emerging onto the Italian art film scene just as the last canonical neo-realist movies were released in the late 1950s and early 1960s, several of Olmi’s films, including Il Posto (1961), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) and The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988), won top prizes at Cannes and Venice. However, the majority of his work has remained unappreciated. This, the first English language book on Olmi, explores the director’s style and evolving environmentalism, from his early, institutional short films, made while working at an Italian energy company, to his 19 feature films.

About the Author:
Ian Pettigrew has published essays in Asian Cinema, The Journal of Religion and Film, Cinej: Cinema Journal, and in the online media journal In Media Res. He lives in Malaysia.

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