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Title Roberto Rossellini's Rome open city / edited by Sidney Gottlieb
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 193 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge University Press film handbooks series
Cambridge film handbooks series.
Contents Introduction: Open city : reappropriating the old, making the new / Sidney Gottlieb -- Rossellini, Open city, and neorealism / Sidney Gottlieb -- The making of Roma città aperta : the legacy of fascism and the birth of neorealism / Peter Bondanella -- Celluloide and the palimpsest of cinematic memory : Carlo Lizzani's film of the story behind Open city / Millicent Marcus -- Diverting clichés : femininity, masculinity, melodrama, and neorealism in Open city / Marcia Landy -- Space, rhetoric, and the divided city in Roma città aperta / David Forgacs -- Mourning, melancholia, and the popular front : Roberto Rossellini's beautiful revolution / Michael P. Rogin -- Reviews of Open city
Summary Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it has been credited with initiating a revolution in and reinvention of modern cinema, bold claims that are substantiated when its impact on how films are conceptualized, made, structured, theorized, circulated, and viewed is examined. This volume offers a fresh look at the production history of Rome Open City; some of its key images, and particularly its representation of the city and various types of women; its cinematic influences and affinities; the complexity of its political dimensions, including the film's vision of political struggle and the political uses to which the film was put; and the legacy of the film in public consciousness. It serves as a well illustrated, up to date, and accessible introduction to one of the major achievements of filmmaking.--Publisher description
Bibliography Filmography: pages 171-187
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-190) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Rossellini, Roberto, 1906-1977. rasuqam
Roma, città aperta (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82255142
Roma, città aperta (Motion picture) fast
Roma città aperta gnd
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Gottlieb, Sidney
LC no. 2003065198
ISBN 9780511617133
0511617135
051183831X
9780511838316
Other Titles Rome open city