- Audiences.
- Prima visione and seconda visione - cinemas that attracted a middle class sophisticated audience usually in major cities, audience selected a film to watch.
- Tera visone - less populated areas, cheaper tickets, audience went to cinema based on habit rather than selecting a film. Films were more formulaic and popular films. More like a television audience.
- Historical and social context.
- Italian working classes in the 1970's would go to the cinema every night so the Italian film industry needed a lot of films.
- Conventions of film watching are different. People may talk, drink and eat during the film. People enter the cinema at beginning, half way through, near the end.
- Cinema is a very social space.
- In some churches mass was conducted in a similar way.
- Economics.
Fellini
- Taken seriously as an auteur.
- Comments on the superficiality of middle class existence.
- Films are associated with style and sophistication.
- Seen as worthy of critical appraisal.
Filone
- Similar to the term genre but not quite.
- Based on the idea of geology - layers of veins within a larger layer.
- Examples of filone:
- Giallo - based on detective novels. Italian for 'yellow' and stems from the series of cheap paperback crime and mystery novels with trademark yellow covers.
- Spaghetti Westerns.
- Mondo/Canibal film.
- Poliziottesco - police proceduaral.
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