Experimental and Independent Italian Cinema : Legacies and Transformations into the Twenty-First Century

## Examines independent and experimental Italian cinema within its historical and cultural context * Places Italian independent and experimental film within the broader historical and cultural context of Italy * Examines film production contexts, film distribution and the impact of digital technology on Italian independnet and experimental filmmkaing * Includes extended case studies on the films __Environmental Screen__ and __Ghosts of San Berillo__, and the work of the Studio Azzurro group This is the first English- language anthology on experimental and independent Italian cinema. Providing an overview of the legacies and transformations of Italian vanguard practices of moving images, the book also explores the historical and sociocultural milieus, the individual artists and filmmakers, and the original work peculiar to Italian stock. Outlining the individual movements, the diverse film artists (from the last century and into the twenty-first), the book pays particular attention to the underground and independent practices of the 1960s and 1970s onwards, and includes an enlightening overview of Italian ‘family films’, as well as studies of contemporary champions of independent practices of documentary and narrative cinema. Discussing a variety of independent and experimental Italian films, this book gives voice to a critcically neglected form of Italian cinema and explores the character of independent films and their related practices within the Italian historical, cultural and cinematic landscape.