Italian Neorealist Cinema / / Torunn Haaland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Haaland, Torunn,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

How has Italian neorealist cinema changed the boundaries of cinematic narration and representation? In this new study, Torunn Haaland argues that neorealism was a cultural moment based on individual optiques. She 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.An engaging and informative read for students and scholars in Italian Studies, Italian Neorealist Cinema presents a new approach to a key cinematic tradition, and so is essential reading for everyone working in the field of Film Studies.

Table of Contents

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