Research Catalog

Title

Allegro non troppo : Bruno Bozzetto's animated music / Marco Bellano.

Author

Bellano, Marco

Publication

• New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
• ©2021

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Description

xiv, 268 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"A film that will let you see the music and listen to drawings; in a word, a film full of Fantasia!" Bruno Bozzetto's Allegro non Troppo tips its hand right away: it is an unabashed, yet full of admiration, retake on Walt Disney's 1940 'concert feature'. The obvious nod to that model fuels many tongue-in-cheek jokes in the film; however, Allegro non Troppo soon departs from mere parody, and becomes a showcase for the multifaceted aesthetics of Italian animation in 1976, as well as a witty social satire and a powerful rethinking of the music-image relationship in cinema. Marco Bellano reconstructs the history of the production of Allegro non Troppo, on the basis of an original research developed with the contribution of Bozzetto himself; it also presents an audiovisual analysis of the work, as to reassess the international relevance of Bozzetto's achievements by giving insight into the director's"--

Series Statement

Animation: key films/filmmakers

Uniform Title

Animation: key films/filmmakers.

Subject

Allegro non troppo (Motion picture : 1976)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-248) and index.

Contents

Preamble -- Foreword -- Introduction: Sketching around Bozzetto -- Part 1: The whole picture. Bruno Bozzetto's life and works : from the short format to the feature film ; Allegro non troppo at a glance ; The path to Allegro non troppo -- Part 2: The episodes and their frame. Premise ; The live-action frame ; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune ; Slavonic dance op. 46 no. 7 ; Boléro ; Valse triste op. 44 no. 1 ; Concerto in C minor RV 559 ; The firebird suite (1919 version) -- Finale(s) -- A guide to further research -- Appendix 1: Musical compositions listed in the Allegro non troppo diaries -- Appendix 2: The Allegro non troppo that never was.

Call Number

JME 21-632

ISBN

• 9781501350863
• 1501350862

LCCN

2021006736

OCLC

1240828479

Author

Bellano, Marco, author.

Title

Allegro non troppo : Bruno Bozzetto's animated music / Marco Bellano.

Publisher

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Animation: key films/filmmakers

Animation: key films/filmmakers.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-248) and index.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Bellano, Marco. Allegro non troppo. New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 9781501350887 (DLC) 2021006737 (OCoLC)1240827243

Research Call Number

JME 21-632