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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pitassio, Francesco.
Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource (386 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Film Culture in Transition Ser. Film Culture in Transition Ser.
Subject:	Realism in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Italy -- History. Motion pictures. Realism in motion pictures. Italy. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12402209

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ISBN:	9048526256 9789048526253 9089648003 9789089648006
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-367) and indexes. In English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Pitassio, Francesco. Neorealist Film Culture, 1945-1954 : Rome, Open Cinema. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2019
Standard no.:	10.1515/9789048526253.

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