Vittorio De Sica : : Contemporary Perspectives /

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

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,...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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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

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