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film a episodi

English translation: episodic film

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Italian term or phrase:	film a episodi
English translation:	episodic film
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Italian term or phrase: film a episodi

Praticato in quasi tutte cinematografie mondiali, il film a episodi assume in Italia proporzioni tali da essere considerato un vero e proprio fenomeno produttivo, divenendo terreno di sperimentazioni linguistico-narrative.

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episodic film

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episodic film

David Hollywood

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series

Cristina Mazzucchelli

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film in episodes

kironne

anthology films or portmanteau films

tatyana000

segment movie/film

Umberto Cassano

please see explanation below (not for points)

manducci

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episodic film

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David Hollywood
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film in episodes

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L'oro di Napoli
From the stories fo Giuseppe Marotta, This film in episodes is especially famous for “Pizza a credito” with the glittering pizza maker Loren, ...
http://library.thinkquest.org/28490/data/inglese/film/oronap...

Siamo Donne
Film in episodes conceived by Cesare Zavattini, that wants to apply the poetic of the daily to famous characters: all the protagonists, infact, ...
http://library.thinkquest.org/28490/data/inglese/film/sdonne...

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Helke Sander | Biographies
Together with Margarethe von Trotta, Christel Buschmann and Helma Sanders-Brahms Sander produced Felix, a film in episodes, in 1986. ...
http://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/biography/...

kironne
Chile
Local time: 15:06
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Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

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series

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Cristina Mazzucchelli
Works in field
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Italian

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segment movie/film

Explanation:
Comedy exposing the fears and aspirations of contemporary Japanese youth. A 14 ***segment film*** by two directors, shot over a period of five years. Episodes: Friendship; Oh! La La; The Room; Umbrella Man; The Incident; Let's Armageddon; Eros on the Run; My Boyfriend; Who's the Director?; Miss Riverside; Congratulations; Cat Meow; Sound of Teacher; Springtime.

http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/640424?view=synopsis

***Multi-segment movies*** by a host of famous directors are invariably disasters (though goodness knows why) and this conglomeration of mainly erotic episodes to background music from notable operas is certainly no exception.

http://www.skymovies.com/skymovies/article/0,,0-11076077,00....

Umberto Cassano
Italy
Local time: 19:06
Works in field
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Italian
PRO pts in category: 35

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please see explanation below (not for points)

Explanation:
My guess is that David is on the right track here with "episodic film" as it would seem that "film a episodi" refers here to a single film which contains within it separate stories - a type of film that became very popular in Italy:

" Blasetti is the director who in 1952 created the episodic film genre that became so popular in Italian cinema over the next twenty years".

definition of "episodic" in this film glossary linked below:

a film that is composed of a series of loosely-related segments, sections, or episodes, with the same character(s) Examples: Intolerance (1916), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Short Cuts (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994)

Example sentences:

It is an episodic film, but that is a feature of much of Fellini. In several films, Fellini builds his meaning in this way: not so much with a single continuing plot, but with a series of smaller stories that add up to a total collection of ideas.

Paisà (Paisan), directed by: Roberto Rossellini, Screenplay: Sergio Amidei / Federico Fellini, 1946
Rossellini’s episodic film tells six stories about Italian, German and American soldiers, whose paths cross in Italy at the end of the war.

Compare episodic to: series/serial/ sequel and trilogy (all from the glossary below)

sequel a cinematic work that presents the continuation of characters, settings, and/or events of a story in a previously-made or preceding movie; contrast to a prequel, follow-up, serial, series, spin-off or remake. Examples: The Maltese Falcon (1941) followed by The Black Bird (1975); National Velvet (1944) followed by International Velvet (1978); A Man and a Woman (1966) followed by A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (1986); generally, sequels are inferior - with some exceptions, such as The Godfather, Part II (1974), Toy Story 2 (1999), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), X2: X-Men United (2003), etc.

serial: multi-part, 'short-subject' film that was usually screened a chapter/episode per week at a film theatre; the predominant style of the serial was melodrama; often, each chapter or episode, continually presented in installments over several weeks, would conclude with an unresolved cliffhanger to ensure that audience would return the following week to discover the resolution; popular until the early 1950s; contrast with series and sequels.

series: a string or sequence of films with shared situations, characters or themes and related titles, but with little other inter-dependence, especially with respect to plot or significant character development. Usually presented without cliffhangers; the term also applies to feature films with more than one sequel; contrast with serials and sequels. Examples of films made in series: The Thin Man (1934), Blondie (1938), Superman (1978), Rocky (1976), Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1979), the James Bond 007 films, and Planet of the Apes (1968).

Trilogy: group of three films that together compose a larger narrative and are related in subject or theme
Examples: Coppola's three Godfather films, the Terminator films trilogy, Terry Gilliam's 'Age of Reason' trilogy, Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy, the Qatsi trilogy, Spielberg's 'Indiana Jones' films, the original Star Wars trilogy, and Kieslowski's 'Three Colors' films

Reference: http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms19.html
Reference: http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html

manducci
Local time: 19:06
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

16 hrs confidence:

anthology films or portmanteau films

Explanation:
If you look up "film a episodi" on wikipedia, then click on the English translation, you get "anthology films". Here's an excerpt from the definition:

anthology films, also known as portmanteau films - films consisting of multiple short films, often with a common theme or framing device.

tatyana000
Local time: 19:06
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May 6, 2007 - Changes made by David Hollywood:
Created KOG entry	KudoZ term => KOG term
Mar 26, 2007 - Changes made by manducci:
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Mar 26, 2007 - Changes made by writeaway:
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