Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Film
Autor: Strani

Mira Liehm - Passion And Defiance
Film in Italy from 1942. to the present

University of California Press, 1984.
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Since World War II, aesthetic impulses generated in Italy have swept through every film industry in the world, and in her book Mira Liehm analyses the roots in literature, philosophy, and contemporary Italian life which have contributed to this extraordinary vigor. An introductory chapter offers a unique overview of the Italian cinema before 1942. It is followed by a full and profound discussion of neorealism in its heyday, its difficult aftermath in the fifties, the glorious sixties, and finally by an analysis of the contemporary cinematic crisis. Mira Liehm has known personally many of the leading figures in Italian cinema, and her work is rich in insights into their lives and working methods. This impressive scholarly work immediately outclasses all other available Italian film histories. It will be essential reading for anyone seriously interested in the cinema.

Drahomíra N. Liehm-Novotná[a][2] (5 December 1929 – 2 October 2019) was a Czech film historian and critic. A 1972 Guggenheim Fellow, she wrote several books, including The Most Important Art (1977) and Passion and Defiance (1984), the former of which she co-authored with Antonín J. Liehm.
Biography

She was born Drahomíra Novotná on 5 December 1929 in Prague, Czechoslovakia.[3] She was married to writer Antonín J. Liehm.[1] She was educated at Charles University, where she obtained her doctorate degree in literary studies in 1953.[2][4]

After briefly spending time working in foreign relations for Czechoslovak Filmexport [cs], she started working as an editor for media outlets and journals, with one of her early roles being as editor-in-chief for Československý film.[4][2] She was deputy editor-in-chief for Film a doba [cs],[5] as well as editor for both Divadelní a filmové noviny and the Journal of Cinema and Television in Prague.[2][4] She also worked for Filmové a televizní noviny.[5]

She would publish reviews and critical studies in some of the periodicals she worked with.[4] She specialized in Italian and Eastern European film,[4] with her works including Il cinema nell`Europa dell`Est 1960–1977 (1977) and Passion and Defiance (1984).[1][2][5] In 1972,[6] she and her husband were awarded a joint Guggenheim Fellowship for a history of cinema in Eastern Europe.[2] In 1977, she and her husband co-authored The Most Important Art.[7]

She was among several signatories to `The Two Thousand Words` in 1968.[4] Following this, she fled the country alongside her husband, eventually settling in the United States.[4][1] She worked at The New School for Social Research as a lecturer (1971–1972).[2] In 1982, she and her husband moved to France, where she was a contributor to Lettre International (which her husband ran).[4] She was part of the selection committee of the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.[4]

In 2013, she and her husband moved back to Prague.[4] She died on 2 October 2019, at the age of 90.[5]
Bibliography

The Most Important Art (1977, with Antonín J. Liehm)[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Passion and Defiance (1984)[16][17][18]

Mira Lihm

italijanski film, neorealizam, vitorio de sika, kradljivci bicikala, djalo, spageti vestern, felini...