Creative Titles: Audiovisual Experimentation and Self-Reflexivity in Italian Industrial Films of the Economic Miracle and After. Issue 2 (23rd January 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cecchi, Alessandro
• Is Part Of: Music, sound and the moving image. Volume 8:Issue 2(2014)
• Page Start: 179
• Page End: 194
• Publication Date: 2015-01-23
• Subjects: Sound -- Periodicals; Motion picture music -- Periodicals; Television music -- Periodicals; Computer game music -- Periodicals; Mixed media (Music) -- Periodicals; Digital art -- Music -- Periodicals; 778.5344
• DOI: 10.3828/msmi.2014.11
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1753-0768

Abstract

Abstract : After discussing the relationship of title sequences to Genette's concept of the paratext, along with the definition of the film as text, this article provides an historical contextualisation of a sub-genre of the Italian industrial film characterised by musical and audiovisual experimentation, which arose in the years of the economic miracle (1958-63), flourished throughout the 1960s and came to an end in the early 1970s. The article goes on to analyse some significant examples, exploring three main issues: the relationship of title sequences to a film's structure, their semantic and rhetorical strategies with particular attention to self-reflexivity, and finally their impact relative to the audience's experience.