Silvana Mangano Essays

  • Melodrama in Roma Città Aperta and Riso Amaro

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    Italia": The Peasant Subject as Site of National and Socialist Identities in the Work of Renato Guttuso and Giuseppe De Santis." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 71 (2008): 315-34. JSTOR. Riso Amaro. Dir. Giuseppe De Santis. Perf. Silvana Mangano, Doris Dowling, and Vittorio Gassman. Lux Film, 1949. DVD. Roma Città Aperta. Dir. Roberto Rossellini. Perf. Aldo Fabrizi and Anna Magnani. Excelsa Film, 1945. DVD. Viiti, Antonio C. “Riso Amaro/Bitter Rice.” The Cinema of Italy. Ed. Giorgio Bertellini

  • Seeking Truth In Sophocles 'Oedipus The King'

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    A man goes to the doctors for an ordinary physical; after several tests were performed the doctors want to share some tragic information with the man. One of the tests diagnosed the man with a disease that will result in him dying. The man’s first reaction is that he wants to know how much longer he has to live. The question is does one really want to put a timer on the amount of time they have left? In this society there are many people who seek the truth to matters that can have tremendous effect

  • Film Industry: Melodrama in Roma Città Aperta and Riso Amaro

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    National Identity: 1945-95. Ed. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Steven Ricci. London: British Film Institute, 1998. 1-18. Print. Paisà. Dir. Roberto Rossellini. Organizzazione Film Internazionali, 1946. DVD. Riso Amaro. Dir. Giuseppe De Santis. Perf. Silvana Mangano, Doris Dowling, and Vittorio Gassman. Lux Film, 1949. DVD. Roma Città Aperta. Dir. Roberto Rossellini. Perf. Aldo Fabrizi and Anna Magnani. Excelsa Film, 1945. DVD. Wagstaff, Christopher. “Italian genre films in the world market.” Hollywood and

  • Understanding Human Nature: Examples from Philosophy and the Arts

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    Understanding Human Nature: Examples from Philosophy and the Arts ABSTRACT: Ours is not the first time philosophers have looked to art for examples to illustrate their arguments. One example would be Kierkegaard, who turned to Mozart's operas in an attempt to expose what he called the aesthetic realm of existence. I hold that if Kierkegaard lived today, he would consider the main character of Nikita Mikhalkov's Dark Eyes (1987) as a prototype of the aesthetic way of existence. In order to support