communications industries" (mslater.com) Federico Faggin, Marcian Edward "Ted" Hoff, and Stanley Mazor worked together to lead the design and development of the first commercial microprocessor in November 1971, the Intel 4004. Federico Faggin was born in Vicenza, Italy on December 1, 1941. In 1965, he received a doctorate in physics from the University of Padua. In 1968, Faggin immigrated to the United States to work for Fairchild in Palo Alto. At Fairchild, Faggin developed the original silicon gate
The movie Amarcord was directed by Federico Fellini and shot in 1974. The setting of the story is a small town in Italy during the time period of the 1930’s. In my research, I discovered that Mr. Fellini based most of his movies on his life experiences. The town depicted in this movie is Rimini, his home town. He was a well known director who was not afraid to express his characters’ emotions and actions in bizarre or unorthodox ways. The scene I watched opens with a young man, Titta, stopping by
Biography of Federico Garcia Lorca Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5,1898; died near Granada, August 19,1936, García Lorca is Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poet and dramatist. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift
Biography of Federico Garcia Lorca Federico García Lorca was born into an educated bourgeois family in Fuente Vaqueros, in Andalusia, Spain, in 1898. His mother was a teacher and his father a rich farm labourer. He read literature and music at Granada University and in 1919, at the age of 21, he published his first book, Impresiones y Paisaijes, that was inspired by a trip around Spain that he took as part of his degree. That year, Lorca went to Madrid to continue with his studies. He moved into
Film Autuerism Auteurism is a term first coined by Francois Truffaut to describe the mark of a film director on his films. A director can be considered an auteur if about five of his film depict a certain style that is definitely his own. In other words, much like one can look at a painting and tell if it is a Monet, a Renoir, or a Degas, if a film director is an auteur, one can look at his film and tell by style and recurring themes that it was made by a certain director. In auteur films, the
“Maybe then reality is something we hate so much that we try to change it with every possibile excuse? Reality? There are only images of it, after all. Man probably uses images in order to fix reality in an acceptable shape, to make it less dangerous and more familiar. It’s a psychic process against which we can do nothing. […]We are enclosed, shuttered within this mystery, which we call the psyche, beyond which we are not permitted to make any suppositions, any affirmations about our existence
his film as a comedy. Anyone who has seen 8 ½ cannot help but laugh at the eclectic and satirical humor that imbues Fellini’s work, but ultimately the feature does not come off as comic,” (Horak). While certain critics (such as Horak) argue that Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ (1963) evokes partial tragedy, one could dually aver that the film epitomizes a classical, “bathos” model; everything within the work, even the dramatic elements, registers as comedic. In similar vain to The Satyricon, Fellini’s 8 ½
Italian Neo-Realism Italian Neorealism has often been referred to as the “Golden Age” of classic Italian cinema. These neorealist films were evidence of the cultural change in Italy after World War II. Traditionally these films presented a contemporary story which was often shot in the streets due to the destruction of the film studios that were significantly damaged during World War II. In DeSica’s 1952 film Umberto D. you see postwar neorealist everyday life. Umberto Domenico Ferrari is an elderly
The French film critic Andre Bazin wrote of Vittorio De Sica,"To explain De Sica, we must go back to the source of his art, namely, his tenderness, his love. The quality shared in common by Miracle in Milan and The Bicycle Thief...is the author's inexhaustible affection for his characters." Born in 1902 in Sora, near Rome, Vittorio De Sica spent his early years in Naples. His father, Umberto De Sica, was a bank clerk and former journalist who knew many show business people and used these contacts
Roberto Rossellini, the director and writer of Germania Anno Zero, portrayed the hardships and consequences the German people faced after World War II and the lifestyle of a collapsed state. From actual footage of Berlin reduced to rubble to the questionable choices that had to be made in order to ensure the survival of their family or themselves, these remarkable scenes are a sharp contrast to the message behind Hitlerjunge Quex which showed the valor and superiority of those who followed Hitler
One of the most influential Italian cinemas film directors was Federico Fellini, who became popular after World War II. The filmography of Fellini included 24 titles; of which won him five Academy Awards including the most Oscars in history for best foreign language film (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Federico Fellini’s influences have became such an integral part of the film industry, that some of his influences are barely even credited to him in todays society such as the word “paparazzi” which originated
photos of celebrities and their families. Before I get into all of the horrible things the paparazzi has done, let me enlighten you on how the paparazzi came to be. Before the term paparazzo was coined in Italy, by an Italian film director named Federico Fellini, people saw the paparazzi as simple press photographers. In 1960 Fellini was directing a movie called “La Dolce Vita”, and in his movie there was a character who was a press photographer named Paparazzo. In Greg Brian’s article, a published
The film Rome Open City takes place in Rome in 1943 during the occupation of Rome by the Nazis. The majority of the characters in this movie partake in the resistance movement against the Germans in their occupation. Because this film was set in such a violent part of history, it is very graphic; many of the conditions endured by the characters were what actual people underwent. Though the circumstances were grave and the characters were forced to overcome numerous obstacles, they were still able
In Italy, post-World War II, a new film movement emerged amidst the collapse of the Mussolini regime, the desecration of a city and its historical landmarks, changes to social order and significant loss of life. Italian Neorealism embraced the harsh, impoverished and oppressive conditions being experienced by ordinary people trying to return to some normality (Film Reference 2015). Seizing an opportunity to discard popular Hollywood formula movies directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Vittoria
In what ways do two films you have studied on the course support or contest the view that film genres are hybrid and in constant evolution? Neorealism is a national film movement integral to Italian cinema. The end of World War II and the loss of the Italian film industry’s centre signalled the start of ‘The Golden Age of Italian Cinema’. In a shattered nation, Italian filmmakers attempted to capture the hardship of everyday life and a changing society. Over the decades, neorealism’s roots still
To begin with, the occurrence of melodrama in these canonical neorealist films may seem surprising, because neorealism is often classified as a reaction against the melodramas of the time. Before the Second World War, Italian melodramas, created in an attempt to steer the Italian public away from imported American films, dominated the market at all levels and in all regions in Italy. These films followed classical narrative techniques and did little to reflect the reality of working class Italians
Italian Neorealism was a movement in film from 1944-1952. This paper will focus on three influential directors and their films. To understand Italian Neorealism and the movement as a whole, it is important to note the birth of it. During the 1930’s cinema in Italy was an entire different movement, which represented a completely different idea than that of Neorealism. “Moreover, the bulk of the films produced during the era, including the so-called telefoni bianchi (upper-class comedies named for
Italian Neorealism, a movement that focused on the arts began in 19th century post war Italy and “became the repository of partisan hopes for social justice in the post war italian state.” (Marcus, xiv) Even before the war, Italy had been under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini and his corrupt form of government, Fascism, which caused oppression throughout the country. Neorealistic films allowed filmmakers to use common styles and techniques to finally reveal the world filled with anguish and
Bordwell and Thompson define the art film as "a film which, while made under commercial circumstances take an approach to form and style influenced by "high art" which offers an alternative to mainstream entertainment" (1). Like avant-garde film making, this style offer the audience with a movie that takes glory in cinemas stance as a modern art form, for art house films are not just intended to be entertaining, they are designed to be imaginative. Shekhar Kapur's 1998 film 'Elizabeth' presents
“La Vita e Bella,” which translates in “Life is beautiful,” is an incredible Italian movie. This movie initially take place in Italy towards the end of World War II. It focuses less on Italian culture and more on Jewish-Italian culture. The film is in all Italian, but there is a little German towards the end of the movie. Overall, this movie made me laugh, cry and than laugh again. Linguistically, I learned that Italians speak extremely fast. I didn’t know much of what they were saying, other