Glory made of satire: The great war of Mario Monicelli

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, Ana Carolina
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Literatura e Autoritarismo
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/LA/article/view/44357
• topic: Mario Monicelli; The Great War; Italian cinema.; Mario Monicelli; A Grande Guerra; cinema italiano.

This work aims to investigate the film The Great War (1959), by Italian director Mario Monicelli. Accused of anti-patriotism at the time of its release, the work revisits the conflicts of World War I in a cynical and tragicomic record. Monicelli is considered one of the most expressive names in the Commedia all'italiana genre, a popular style that dominated Italian cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by social criticism and moral satire. With The Great War, the director established himself as a reference in world cinematography by making one of the first productions in Italy to deviate from the standard and portray the first war outside the fascist molds of representation. From an analysis of its narrative resources and visual devices, this essay seeks to explore the connections Monicelli's film establishes with history, particularly in relation to the propaganda rhetoric of the fascist era cinema.