| Description |
xix, 443 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Rossellini's Open city : the founding -- De Sica's Bicycle thief : casting shadows on the visionary city -- De Santis's Bitter rice : a neorealist hybrid -- De Sica's Umberto D : dark victory for neorealism -- Comencini's Bread, love, and fantasy : consumable realism -- Fellini's La strada : transcending neorealism -- Visconti's Senso : the Risorgimento according to Gramsci -- Antonioni's Red desert : abstraction as the guiding idea -- Olmi's Il posto : discrediting the economic miracle -- Germi's Seduced and abandoned : inside the honor code -- Pasolini's Teorema : the halfway revolution -- Petri's Investigation of a citizen above suspicion : power as pathology -- Bertolucci's The conformist : a morals charge -- Wertmuller's Love and anarchy : the high price of commitment -- Rosi's Christ stopped at Eboli : a tale of two Italies -- The Taviani brothers' Night of the shooting stars : ambivalent tribute to neorealism -- Scola's We all loved each other so much : an epilogue |
| Analysis |
Italian neorealist cinema films, 1945-1982 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [423]-436 |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Italy.
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Motion pictures, Italian.
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Realism in motion pictures.
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| LC no. |
86091473 |
| ISBN |
0691054894 (alk. paper) |
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0691102082 |
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9780691102085 |
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