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Neorealist Film Culture, 1945-1954 : Rome, Open Cinema / Francesco Pitassio.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Film Culture in TransitionPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 42Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048526253
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436120945 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.R3 P58 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: An Uncertain Direction. Neorealist Cinema and Transitional Culture -- 1. Locating the Real -- 2. Lies of Memory -- 3. Looking at the Images -- 4. Actors, Non-professional Actors, Starlets, and Stars -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Name Index -- Film Index
Summary: Unique, truthful, brutal. Neorealism is often associated with adjectives stressing its peculiarities in representing the real, its lack of antecedents, and its legacy in terms of film style. While this is useful when confronting auteurs such as De Sica, Rossellini or Visconti, it becomes problematic when examining a widespread cultural practice that realistic modes deeply affected. This cultural production included filmmaking, literature, visual culture and photography, as well as media discourses. It was internally contradictory but fruitful inasmuch as its legacy influenced national culture for many decades to come. [-][-]The volume spotlights post-war Italian film culture by locating a series of crossroads, i.e. topics barely examined when discussing neorealism: nation, memory and trauma, visual culture, stardom, and performance. The aim is to deconstruct neorealism as a monument and to open up its cultural history.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: An Uncertain Direction. Neorealist Cinema and Transitional Culture -- 1. Locating the Real -- 2. Lies of Memory -- 3. Looking at the Images -- 4. Actors, Non-professional Actors, Starlets, and Stars -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Name Index -- Film Index

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Unique, truthful, brutal. Neorealism is often associated with adjectives stressing its peculiarities in representing the real, its lack of antecedents, and its legacy in terms of film style. While this is useful when confronting auteurs such as De Sica, Rossellini or Visconti, it becomes problematic when examining a widespread cultural practice that realistic modes deeply affected. This cultural production included filmmaking, literature, visual culture and photography, as well as media discourses. It was internally contradictory but fruitful inasmuch as its legacy influenced national culture for many decades to come. [-][-]The volume spotlights post-war Italian film culture by locating a series of crossroads, i.e. topics barely examined when discussing neorealism: nation, memory and trauma, visual culture, stardom, and performance. The aim is to deconstruct neorealism as a monument and to open up its cultural history.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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