A Spanner in the Works: Elio Petri from Il maestro di Vigevano (1963) to La classe operaia va in paradiso (1971)
A Spanner in the Works: Elio Petri from Il maestro di Vigevano (1963) to La classe operaia va in paradiso (1971)
This chapter analyses Elio Petri's two films that feature industrial labour, Il maestro di Vigevano (1963) and La classe operaia va in paradiso (1971). In so doing it considers the shift from the commedia all'italiana of the 1960s to the more radical cinema post-68. La classe operaia va in paradiso represents a mature work for Petri, one that combines the rhythms and affects of industrial labour into its filmmaking style, and its theme that all of life is one large factory. For Petri, this includes social and mental life, something that puts him in touch with currents in autonomist thought and that results in the most developed artistic realisation of the effects of Fordism in the history of Italian cinema.
Elio Petri, cinema politico, political cinema, autonomism, hot autumn
459-468
Bayman, Louis
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2021
Bayman, Louis
4ac4c78c-a62e-43a4-aa70-497ab56dcad4
Bayman, Louis
(2021)
A Spanner in the Works: Elio Petri from Il maestro di Vigevano (1963) to La classe operaia va in paradiso (1971).
In,
Baghetti, Carlo, Carter, Jim and Marmo, Lorenzo
(eds.)
Italian Industrial Literature and Film: Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor.
(Italian Modernities, 40)
Peter Lang, .
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This chapter analyses Elio Petri's two films that feature industrial labour, Il maestro di Vigevano (1963) and La classe operaia va in paradiso (1971). In so doing it considers the shift from the commedia all'italiana of the 1960s to the more radical cinema post-68. La classe operaia va in paradiso represents a mature work for Petri, one that combines the rhythms and affects of industrial labour into its filmmaking style, and its theme that all of life is one large factory. For Petri, this includes social and mental life, something that puts him in touch with currents in autonomist thought and that results in the most developed artistic realisation of the effects of Fordism in the history of Italian cinema.
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Elio Petri, cinema politico, political cinema, autonomism, hot autumn
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Carlo Baghetti
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Jim Carter
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Lorenzo Marmo
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