Neorealist Film Culture, 1945-1954 : : Rome, Open Cinema / / Francesco Pitassio.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Pitassio, Francesco,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Film Culture in Transition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 42

Unique, truthful, brutal. Neorealism is often associated with adjectives stressing its peculiarities in representing the real, its lack of antecedents, and its legacy in terms of film style. While this is useful when confronting auteurs such as De Sica, Rossellini or Visconti, it becomes problematic when examining a widespread cultural practice that realistic modes deeply affected. This cultural production included filmmaking, literature, visual culture and photography, as well as media discourses. It was internally contradictory but fruitful inasmuch as its legacy influenced national culture for many decades to come. [-][-]The volume spotlights post-war Italian film culture by locating a series of crossroads, i.e. topics barely examined when discussing neorealism: nation, memory and trauma, visual culture, stardom, and performance. The aim is to deconstruct neorealism as a monument and to open up its cultural history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: An Uncertain Direction. Neorealist Cinema and Transitional Culture -- 1. Locating the Real -- 2. Lies of Memory -- 3. Looking at the Images -- 4. Actors, Non-professional Actors, Starlets, and Stars -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Name Index -- Film Index