Editing Cinema of Italy (section)

==== Stardom (1910s) ====
[[File:Cenere - Eleonora Duse Febo Mari 1.jpg|thumb|''[[Cenere]]'' by [[Febo Mari]] (1917)]]
Between 1913 and 1920 there was the rise, development and decline of the phenomenon of cinematographic stardom, born with the release of ''[[Ma l'amor mio non muore]]'' (1913), by [[Mario Caserini]]. The film had great success with the public and encoded the setting and aesthetics of female stardom. Within just a few years, [[Eleonora Duse]], [[Pina Menichelli]], [[Rina De Liguoro]], [[Leda Gys]], [[Hesperia (actress)|Hesperia]], [[Vittoria Lepanto]], [[Mary Cleo Tarlarini]] and [[Italia Almirante Manzini]] established themselves.

Films such as ''[[Fior di male]]'' (1914), by [[Carmine Gallone]], ''[[Il fuoco]]'' (1915), by [[Giovanni Pastrone]], ''[[Rapsodia satanica]]'' (1917), by [[Nino Oxilia]] and ''[[Cenere]]'' (1917), by [[Febo Mari]], changed the national costume, imposing canons of beauty, role models and objects of desire.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/sdd/article/download/2533/2533/|title=La bellezza del cinema|access-date=9 January 2022|language=it}}</ref> These models, strongly stylized according to the cultural and artistic trends of the time, moved away from naturalism in favor of melodramatic acting, pictorial gesture and theatrical pose; all favored by the incessant use of [[close-up]] which focuses the attention on the expressiveness of the actress.<ref>{{cite book|first=Gian Piero |last=Brunetta|publisher=Einaudi|year=2002|volume=III|page=51|title=Storia del cinema mondiale|isbn=978-88-06-14528-6|language=it}}</ref>