Italian Neorealist Cinema /

Italian Neorealist Cinema / / Torunn Haaland.

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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 cri...

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

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