Italian Neorealist Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780748636112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 248 str.

Torunn Haaland

Opis

Torunn Haaland argues that neorealism was a cultural moment and accounts for the tradition's coherence in terms of its moral commitment to creating critical viewing experiences around underrepresented realities and marginalised people. By examining both acclaimed masterpieces and lesser known works, parallels are drawn to realist theories and to past and present cinematic traditions. The ways in which successive generations of directors have readopted, negotiated and broken with the themes and aesthetics of neorealist film are discussed and evaluated, along with neorealist tendencies in other arts, such as literature.

Spis treści

List of figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. A moment and a country; Chapter 2. Realism and neorealism; Chapter 3. Literary neorealism: narration and testimony; Chapter 4. Rossellini’s cities of war and resistance; Chapter 5. Wandering among De Sica’s urbanites: shoeshiners, bicycle thieves, miraculous outcasts and a man with a dog; Chapter 6. Visconti’s worlds of aestheticism and ideology: between tradition and invention, from country to city; Chapter 7. Faces and spaces of neorealism: from dystopian cities to utopian countries; Chapter 8. The journey beyond neorealism: streetwalkers, political rebels, anti-mafia resisters, stolen children and unwanted citizens; Filmography; Bibliography; Index