Louis Bayman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis Bayman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Bayman |
| SIGNATURE | BAYMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4780-2057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In the Footsteps of the East London Group and Rooms Through Time
This review focuses on two exhibitions held in East London, both of which intricately explore the area’s rich history, memory, and evolving representation.The first, In the Footsteps of the East Lo
Memories of the future
This special issue, devoted to film and television, serves to elaborate an aesthetic register that has become so common in the past decade as to be ubiquitous.This register is shared by an extraordinary number of recent texts from feature films to television series to documentaries to experimental novels.The name we give it is one we borrow from the novelist Siri Hustvedt: 'memories of the future'.This special issue brings together a cross-discip…
Intertemporality in Spencer (2021)
Why bad things happen to bad people
This essay explores the idea of evil through its relationship to ideas of justice and representations of suffering. It does so to consider the particularity of the giallo genre both in relation to the wider detective and horror genres of which it is a hybrid, and to the development of Italian cinema in the post-war decades. In its delirious depictions of a hellish modernity the giallo overturns faith both in Catholic tradition and in reason. By r…
L'Italia di Fellini. Immagini, paesaggi, forme di vita
In 1993, a few months before his death, the veteran film director Federico Fellini was invited to the University of Bologna to receive an honorary doctorate. Bologna, the oldest modern university in the world, wished to bestow on Fellini its institutional recognition of his half a century in the Italian film industry. Not unflattered, Fellini declined, and wrote to the rector of the university that he felt ‘like Pinocchio being decorated by the h…
Francesco Pitassio, Neorealist Film Culture 1945–1954
Barely has the afterglow subsided from the celebration of 70 years since the first appearance of neorealism in the wreckage of the postwar Italian film industry,1 than the heralds of its 75th anniversary appear.2 This recurrent urge to commemorate neorealism suggests that the movement acts to remind scholars that film once had a heroic phase, as an art form with a previously unparalleled public importance. Yet sceptics might be forgiven for consi…
Can there be a Progressive Nostalgia? Layering Time in Pride’s Retro-Heritage
Pride is notable for its dynamic treatment of time, which is key both to its appeal as a film and to its presentation of the processes of political change. By combining nostalgia, retro, and heritage, Pride manifests an artistic practice I refer to as temporal layering, which draws attention to how any single moment implies potential relationships with numerous interacting others. I use this notion to understand both the role that the 1984–5 mine…
Journeys on Screen
Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads
Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation, edited by Austin Fisher, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2016, 304 pp., £70 (hardback), ISBN 9780748695454
Early film theories in Italy 1896–1922
Early film theories in Italy 1896–1922, edited by Francesco Casetti with Silvio Alovisio and Luca Mazzei, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2017, 512pp., notes. bibliography, US$74.95 (paperback), ISBN 978908964556
Ivo Blom, Reframing Luchino Visconti
It was an Italian writer, Ricciotto Canudo, who in 1911 proclaimed cinema to be not only the ‘sixth art’ but a synthesis of the others.1 One could suggest Luchino Visconti as the practical realization of this theory, for the starting point for this new, highly detailed and very rich study by Ivo Blom is that Visconti’s cinema represents the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, the name given by Richard Wagner (who appears as a character in Visc…
The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748656431','ISBN:9780748656424']); Melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy, central to popular life and the dramatic arts Read and download the introduction for free here (pdf) Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with styl…
The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama
After the war audiences filled Italian cinemas to watch films of passion and pathos. Highly emotional and consciously theatrical, these melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, and redefined popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. This book elucidates the insight they give into a post-war society between war and economic miracle, and examines their status as mass products f…
Popular Italian Cinema
Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning
Conference report Popular Italian Cinema
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Conference report Popular Italian Cinema
Popular Italian Cinema
Exciting new critical perspectives on popular Italian cinema including melodrama, poliziesco, the mondo film, the sex comedy, missionary cinema and the musical. The book interrogates the very meaning
The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748656431','ISBN:9780748656424']); Melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy, central to popular life and the dramatic arts Read and download the introduction for free here (pdf) Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with styl…
The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama
After the war audiences filled Italian cinemas to watch films of passion and pathos. Highly emotional and consciously theatrical, these melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, and redefined popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. This book elucidates the insight they give into a post-war society between war and economic miracle, and examines their status as mass products f…
Journeys on Screen
Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads
Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation, edited by Austin Fisher, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2016, 304 pp., £70 (hardback), ISBN 9780748695454
Early film theories in Italy 1896–1922
Early film theories in Italy 1896–1922, edited by Francesco Casetti with Silvio Alovisio and Luca Mazzei, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2017, 512pp., notes. bibliography, US$74.95 (paperback), ISBN 978908964556
Ivo Blom, Reframing Luchino Visconti
It was an Italian writer, Ricciotto Canudo, who in 1911 proclaimed cinema to be not only the ‘sixth art’ but a synthesis of the others.1 One could suggest Luchino Visconti as the practical realization of this theory, for the starting point for this new, highly detailed and very rich study by Ivo Blom is that Visconti’s cinema represents the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, the name given by Richard Wagner (who appears as a character in Visc…
Can there be a Progressive Nostalgia? Layering Time in Pride’s Retro-Heritage
Pride is notable for its dynamic treatment of time, which is key both to its appeal as a film and to its presentation of the processes of political change. By combining nostalgia, retro, and heritage, Pride manifests an artistic practice I refer to as temporal layering, which draws attention to how any single moment implies potential relationships with numerous interacting others. I use this notion to understand both the role that the 1984–5 mine…
Francesco Pitassio, Neorealist Film Culture 1945–1954
Barely has the afterglow subsided from the celebration of 70 years since the first appearance of neorealism in the wreckage of the postwar Italian film industry,1 than the heralds of its 75th anniversary appear.2 This recurrent urge to commemorate neorealism suggests that the movement acts to remind scholars that film once had a heroic phase, as an art form with a previously unparalleled public importance. Yet sceptics might be forgiven for consi…
Why bad things happen to bad people
This essay explores the idea of evil through its relationship to ideas of justice and representations of suffering. It does so to consider the particularity of the giallo genre both in relation to the wider detective and horror genres of which it is a hybrid, and to the development of Italian cinema in the post-war decades. In its delirious depictions of a hellish modernity the giallo overturns faith both in Catholic tradition and in reason. By r…
L'Italia di Fellini. Immagini, paesaggi, forme di vita
In 1993, a few months before his death, the veteran film director Federico Fellini was invited to the University of Bologna to receive an honorary doctorate. Bologna, the oldest modern university in the world, wished to bestow on Fellini its institutional recognition of his half a century in the Italian film industry. Not unflattered, Fellini declined, and wrote to the rector of the university that he felt ‘like Pinocchio being decorated by the h…
In the Footsteps of the East London Group and Rooms Through Time
This review focuses on two exhibitions held in East London, both of which intricately explore the area’s rich history, memory, and evolving representation.The first, In the Footsteps of the East Lo
Memories of the future
This special issue, devoted to film and television, serves to elaborate an aesthetic register that has become so common in the past decade as to be ubiquitous.This register is shared by an extraordinary number of recent texts from feature films to television series to documentaries to experimental novels.The name we give it is one we borrow from the novelist Siri Hustvedt: 'memories of the future'.This special issue brings together a cross-discip…
Intertemporality in Spencer (2021)
Art (14 works) · Literature (9 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Movie theater (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works)