Vittorio De Sica : : Contemporary Perspectives / / ed. by Howard Curle, Stephen Snyder.

• MitwirkendeR: Bazin, André,; Bondanella, Peter,; Cardullo, Bert,; Colin, Westerbeck,; Curle, Howard,; Deleuze, Gilles,; Grinstein, Alexander,; Kael, Pauline,; Kinder, Marsha,; Landy, Marcia,; Marcus, Millicent,; McIntyre, Faye,; P.Tomasulo, Frank,; Perez, Gilberto,; Price, James,; Roy, Claude,; Snyder, Stephen,; Toles, George,; V.Cannistraro, Philip,; Wegner, Hart,; West, Mark,; Young, Vernon,; Zavattini, Cesare,
• HerausgeberIn: Curle, Howard,; Snyder, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Italian Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Recognized as a master of Italian cinema, Vittorio De Sica is perhaps best known and most respected for his critically acclaimed neorealist films of the period 1946-55. As this anthology reveals, however, his production was remarkably multifaceted. The essays included here - some newly commissioned, some reprinted, and others in translation - look at De Sica's varied career from many perspecives.Structured chronologically, the volume begins by introducing readers to De Sica's early popularity as an actor and singer during the years of Italian Fascism, and to his initial directorial efforts before the end of World War II. It was not until the postwar era, however, that De Sica made his mark in film history. Special attention is given to this critical phase of his career, which encompasses the neorealist films that made him famous: "Shoeshine", "Bicycle Thieves", "Miracle in Milan", and "Umberto D."When the neorealist movement waned after 1955, De Sica returned to his roots in Neapolitan comedy for a series of commercially successful films starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Memorable works from this period include "Two Women" and "Marriage Italian Style" as well as "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow", which won De Sica an Academy Award in 1965. In one of his final films, "The Garden of the Finzi Continis", he returned to the subject of World War II and to the human tragedy characteristic of his best neorealist productions. This fine anthology offers a comprehensive critical survey that covers the entire scope of De Sica's career, and is an excellent resource for students, critics and film enthusiasts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Film Documentation and Photographs -- Introduction -- De Sica on De Sica -- Some Ideas on the Cinema -- De Sica: Metteur en Scene -- Umberto D. and Realism -- Beyond the Movement-Image -- Ideological Continuity and Cultural Coherence -- Remembrance of Things Past -- On a Train to the Kingdom of Earth: Watching De Sica's Children -- Shoeshine -- The Art of Shoeshine -- Holding Hands with a Bicycle Thief -- Bicycle Thieves: A Re-reading -- Neorealist Aesthetics and the Fantastic: The Machine to Kill Bad People and Miracle in Milan -- Appendix: Reflections on Miracle in Milan -- Miracle in Milan: Some Psychoanalytic Notes on a Movie -- Pius Aeneas and Totò, il buono: The Founding Myth of the Divine City -- Umberto D.: Vittorio De Sica's ,Super'-Naturalism -- The Subversive Potential of the Pseudo-Iterative -- A Home in the Ditch of Saint Agnes: De Sica's The Roof -- The Case of De Sica -- Hiding in the Light: De Sica's Work in the 19605 -- In Love and War: Vittorio De Sica's Two Women -- De Sica's Garden of the Finzi-Continis: An Escapist Paradise Lost -- The Magic Mountain -- Filmography