Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City
- ISBN-10
- 1904764487
- ISBN-13
- 9781904764489
- Category
- City and town life in motion pictures
- Pages
- 142
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Wallflower Press
- Author
- Mark Shiel
Description
Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the roots and causes of neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and style, Mark Shiel examines the portrayal of the city and the legacy left by filmmakers such as Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti. Films studied include Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948), and Umberto D. (1952).
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2006-03-17
- 144 pages
- Ebook
- Columbia University Press
Similar books
-
Italian Neorealist Cinema: An Aesthetic Approach
By Christopher WagstaffBrunetta, Cent'anni di cinema italiano and Storia del cinema italiano; Calvino, 'Preface' to Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno; Cassac, Littérature et cinéma néoréalistes; Chiarini, Arte e tecnica del film; Grant, Realism; Bruno, Teorie del ...
-
Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema
By Laura E. Ruberto, Kristi M. WilsonThis volume addresses the influence of Italian neorealist films on world cinema well beyond the post-World War II period associated with the movement.
-
André Bazin and Italian Neorealism
By André Bazin, Bert CardulloA new collection of posthumous writings by André Baz
-
Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style
By Robert Sklar, Saverio GiovacchiniThe traditional story notwithstanding, the meaning and the origins of the term are problematic. What does neorealism really mean, and how Italian is it? Italian filmmakers were wary of using the term and Rossellini preferred "realism.
-
Italian Neorealist Cinema
By Torunn HaalandThis book traces the roots of neorealist film and draws parallels to neorealist fiction, by surveying the major creative contributions to and critical receptions of this trend in Italian postwar cinema.
-
Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism
By Millicent MarcusThe author does close readings of seventeen films that tell the story of neorealism's evolving influence on Italian postwar cinematic expression.
-
Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema
By Karl SchoonoverSPECTACULAR. SUFFERING. De Sica's Bodies and Charity's Gaze VITToRIo DE SICA DESCRIBED his film Bicycle Thieves as “dedicated to the suffering of the humble.”1 He said that his Shoeshine arose from the desire to bring attention to “the ...
-
Cinema of Anxiety: A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism
By Vincent F. RocchioIn this boldly revisionist book, Vincent F. Rocchio combines Lacanian psychoanalysis with narratology and Marxist critical theory to examine the previously neglected relationship between Neorealist films and the historical spectators they ...
-
Neorealism and the "New" Italy: Compassion in the Development of Italian Identity
By Simonetta Milli KonewkoAiming to produce a deeper understanding of the ways in which Italy is re-encoded and reconstructed, this book explores the formation of Italian identity and redefines neorealism as a topic of investigation.
-
New Trends in Italian Cinema: "New" Neorealism
By Carmela Scalacineasta definisce la “tragica recita” del pranzo finale per il compleanno della ricca padrona (con annesso primo piano di un ... per l'umanità un'epoca nuova, che la pace sarebbe durata per sempre, ma ecco, quel sogno è stato tradito.