Italian Neorealist Cinema

by Haaland, Torunn

• ISBN13: 9780748636112
• ISBN10: 0748636110
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-29
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

Surveying the major creative contributions to and critical receptions of this trend in Italian postwar cinema, the book begins by tracing the roots of neorealist film and drawing parallels to neorealist fiction. It then explores the ways in which neorealist cinema positioned itself in relation to the processes of postwar reconstruction, and what relations it may be said to have established with non-cinematic practices in the redefinition of national identity.

Author Biography

Torunn Haaland is Assistant Professor of Italian at Gonzag University.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vi
Acknowledgments	p. viii
A moment and a country	p. 1
Realism and neorealism	p. 33
Literary neorealism: narration and testimony	p. 62
Rossellini's cities of war and resistance	p. 91
Wandering among De Sica's urbanities: shoeshiners, bicycle thieves, miraculous outcasts and a man with a dog	p. 123
Visconti's worlds of aestheticism and ideology: between tradition and invention, from country to city	p. 146
Faces and spaces of neorealism: from dystopian cities to utopian countries	p. 169
The journey beyond neorealism: streetwalkers, political rebels, antimafia resisters, stolen children and unwanted citizens	p. 193
Filmography	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 222
Index	p. 233
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