Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism / / Millicent Marcus.
The movement known as neorealism lasted seven years, generated only twenty-one films, failed at the box office, and fell short of its didactic and aesthetic aspirations. Yet it exerted such a profound influence on Italian cinema that all the best postwar directors had to come to terms with it, wheth...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I: Neorealism Proper
- 1. Rossellini's Open City: The Founding
- 2. De Sica's Bicycle Thief: Casting Shadows on the Visionary City
- 3. De Santis's Bitter Rice: A Neorealist Hybrid
- 4. De Sica's Umberto D: Dark Victory for Neorealism
- PART II: Transitions
- 5. Comencini's Bread, Love, and Fantasy: Consumable Realism
- 6. Fellini's La strada: Transcending Neorealism
- 7. Visconti's Senso: The Risorgimento According to Gramsci
- 8. Antonioni's Red Desert: Abstraction as the Guiding Idea
- PART III: Return to Social Commentary
- 9. Olmi's Il posto: Discrediting the Economic Miracle
- 10. Germi's Seduced and Abandoned: Inside the Honor Code
- 11. Pasolini's Teorema: The Halfway Revolution
- 12. Petri's Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion: Power as Pathology
- PART IV: Fascism and War Reconsidered
- 13. Bertolucci's The Conformist: A Morals Charge
- 14. Wertmuller's Love and Anarchy: The High Price of Commitment
- 15. Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli: A Tale of Two Italies
- 16. The Taviani Brothers' Night of the Shooting Stars: Ambivalent Tribute to Neorealism
- 17. Scola's We All Loved Each Other So Much: An Epilogue
- Bibliography of Works Consulted
- Index