Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty (2012) is one of the icons of Italian contemporary cinema and a perfect example of an art film in global culture. An engaging piece of «highbrow cinema» (like La dolce vita) as well as a fascinating meditation on entertainment and mass culture, it has become a key point of reference in debates about decline in Italy. This article explores its influences and relationships with the field of photography and mass tourism, with particular reference to John Urry’s «tourist gaze», the work of Martin Parr and his stereotypical impres- sion of Rome, and Cafonal, a book of photography by Umberto Pizzi, a paparazzo in today’s Rome, which celebrates the ritual of loutish Italy through the lens of contemporary Rome.

Roma cafona. Note su La grande bellezza, il kitsch e la fotografia / Minuz, Andrea. - In: L'AVVENTURA. - ISSN 2421-6496. - 1(2020), pp. 155-165.

Roma cafona. Note su La grande bellezza, il kitsch e la fotografia

Andrea Minuz
2020

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Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty (2012) is one of the icons of Italian contemporary cinema and a perfect example of an art film in global culture. An engaging piece of «highbrow cinema» (like La dolce vita) as well as a fascinating meditation on entertainment and mass culture, it has become a key point of reference in debates about decline in Italy. This article explores its influences and relationships with the field of photography and mass tourism, with particular reference to John Urry’s «tourist gaze», the work of Martin Parr and his stereotypical impres- sion of Rome, and Cafonal, a book of photography by Umberto Pizzi, a paparazzo in today’s Rome, which celebrates the ritual of loutish Italy through the lens of contemporary Rome.
2020
cinema italiano contemporaneo; Roma nel cinema; identità italiano
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