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Place, Setting, Perspective examines the films of the Italian filmmaker, Nanni Moretti, from a fresh viewpoint, employing the increasingly significant research area of space within a filmic text. The book is conceived with the awareness that space cannot be studied only in aesthetic or narrative terms: social, political, and cultural aspects of narrated spaces are equally important if a thorough appraisal is to be achieved of an oeuvre such as Morettis, which is profoundly associated with socio-political commentary and analysis. After an exploration of various existing frameworks of narrative space in film, the book offers a particular definition of the term based on the notions of Place, Setting, and Perspective. Place relates to the physical aspect of narrative space and specifically involves cityscapes, landscapes, interiors, and exteriors in the real world. Setting concerns genre characteristics of narrative space, notably its differentiated use in melodrama, detective stories, fantasy narratives, and gender based scenarios. Perspective encompasses the point of view taken optically by the camera which supports the standpoint of Morettis personal philosophy expressed through the aesthetic aspects which he employs to create narrative space. The study is based on a close textual analysis of Morettis eleven major feature films to date, using the formal film language of mise-en-scne, cinematography, editing, and sound. The aim is to show how Moretti selects, organizes, constructs, assembles, and manipulates the many elements of narrative space into an entire work of art, to enable meanings and pleasures for the spectator.

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Place, Setting, Perspective

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Series in Italian Studies

General Editor: Dr. Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra
Italian American Institute

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies is devoted to the publication of scholarly works on Italian literature, film, history, biography, art, and culture, as well as on intercultural connections, such as Italian-American Studies.

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Place, Setting, Perspective

Narrative Space in the
Films of Nanni Moretti

Eleanor Andrews


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FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Madison Teaneck

Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

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Copyright 2014 by Eleanor Andrews


All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.


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Andrews, Eleanor, 1953

Place, setting, perspective : narrative space in the films of Nanni Moretti / Eleanor Andrews.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61147-690-3 (cloth : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-61147-691-0 (electronic)

1. Moretti, Nanni--Criticism and interpretation. I. Title.

PN1998.3.M67A53 2014

791.43023'3092--dc23

2014023446


Picture 2 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.


Printed in the United States of America

To my dear parents, Rhoda and George Whitcombe,
who always believed in me


List of Figures Acknowledgments I would like to thank Stella Hockenhull Ken - photo 3
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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Stella Hockenhull, Ken Page, Fran Pheasant-Kelly, Pritpal Sembi, and Barbara Crowther, my good friends and colleagues in the film studies section at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, for all their help over the years and for reading various sections of the book in draft form. I am grateful to Glyn Hambrook, who has given me invaluable advice on the work, and to Gaby Steinke for her many useful suggestions and for taking the pressure off my teaching and marking load in recent years while I was writing. Thanks also go to other colleagues at the University of Wolverhampton: Paul Brighton, Gerry Carlin, Mark Jones, and Jackie Pieterick for proofreading drafts of chapters. I would like to acknowledge the huge amount of help given to me during my research by Pamela Morris and the staff of the Harrison Learning Centre at the University of Wolverhampton, who never failed to obtain whatever texts I required.

At the University of Reading I would like to thank Christopher Wagstaff for sharing his extensive knowledge and expertise on Italian cinema with me and for his perceptive comments and critique. Gratitude is also owed to many other friends, including Wendy Stirling, who have given me constant encouragement and have believed that I would eventually complete this project.

In addition, I would like to thank Harry Keyishian at Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Brooke Bures of Rowman & Littlefield for their support, and for answering my many queries.

Last, but not least, I am indebted to my family: my husband, Alec Andrews, for his tolerance and air of baffled curiosity over the many long years of this work, when I seemed to spend more time in the company of Signor Moretti then I did with him, and my sons Alex Andrews and John Andrews, who have dealt patiently with my fluctuating moods of joy and despair.

Clarification

For the purpose of clarity, the name Moretti will be used to refer to the author, filmmaker, and actor, Nanni Moretti, while Nanni will be used to identify the character that is the fictionalized version of Moretti appearing in Dear Diary, April, and The Caiman. In this book, Place, Setting, and Perspective have very specific meanings, whereas the terms location, site, locus, area, situation, surroundings, scenery, venue, and locale are all used in a much more generalized way. All quotes from the films are verbatim rather than from the screenplay. All translations are the authors own, unless otherwise stated. The titles of Morettis films are given below in English. A detailed filmography follows the text of this book.

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