Italian Neorealism

Italian Neorealism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Italian Neorealism book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Italian Neorealism

Charles L. Leavitt IV
Italian Neorealism Book PDF

Author : Charles L. Leavitt IV
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487535582

Get Book

Italian Neorealism by Charles L. Leavitt IV Pdf

Neorealism emerged as a cultural exchange and a field of discourse that served to shift the confines of creativity and revise the terms of artistic expression not only in Italy but worldwide. If neorealism was thus a global phenomenon, it is because of its revolutionary portrayal of a transformative moment in the local, regional, and national histories of Italy. At once guiding and guided by that transformative moment, neorealist texts took up, reflected, and performed the contentious conditions of their creation, not just at the level of narrative content but also in their form, language, and structure. Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History demonstrates how they did so through a series of representative case studies. Recounting the history of a generation of artists, this study offers fundamental insights into one of the most innovative and influential cultural moments of the twentieth century.

Italian Neorealism

Mark Shiel
Italian Neorealism Book PDF

Author : Mark Shiel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850292

Get Book

Italian Neorealism by Mark Shiel Pdf

Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the roots and causes of neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and style, Mark Shiel examines the portrayal of the city and the legacy left by filmmakers such as Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti. Films studied include Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948), and Umberto D. (1952).

Italian Neorealist Cinema

Christopher Wagstaff
Italian Neorealist Cinema Book PDF

Author : Christopher Wagstaff
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802095206

Get Book

Italian Neorealist Cinema by Christopher Wagstaff Pdf

"The end of the Second World War saw the emergence in Italy of the neorealism movement, which produced a number of films characterized by stories set among the poor and working class, often shot on location using non-professional actors. In this study Christopher Wagstaff provides an in-depth analysis of neorealist film, focusing on three films that have had a major impact on filmmakers and audiences around the world: Roberto Rossellini's Roma città aperta and Paisà and Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette. Indeed, these films are still, more than half a century after they were made, among the most highly regarded works in the history of cinema. In this insightful and carefully researched work, Wagstaff suggests that the importance of these films is largely due to the aesthetic and rhetorical qualities of their assembled sounds and images rather than, as commonly thought, their particular representations of historical reality.The author begins by situating neorealist cinema in its historical, industrial, commercial, and cultural context. He goes on to provide a theoretical discussion of realism and the merits of neorealist films, individually and collectively, as aesthetic artefacts. He follows with a detailed analysis of the three films, focusing on technical and production aspects as well as on the significance of the films as cinematic works of art.While providing a wealth of information and analysis previously unavailable to an English-speaking audience, Italian Neorealist Cinema offers a radically new perspective on neorealist cinema and the Italian art cinema that followed it."

Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema

Laura E. Ruberto,Kristi M. Wilson
Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema Book PDF

Author : Laura E. Ruberto,Kristi M. Wilson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814333249

Get Book

Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema by Laura E. Ruberto,Kristi M. Wilson Pdf

This volume addresses the influence of Italian neorealist films on world cinema well beyond the post-World War II period associated with the movement. Despite its lack of organization and relatively short life span, the Italian neorealist movement deeply influenced directors and film traditions around the world. This collection examines the impact of Italian neorealism beyond the period of 1945-52, the years conventionally connected to the movement, and beyond the postwar Italian film industry where the movement originated. Providing a refreshing aesthetic and ideological contrast to mainstream Hollywood films, neorealist filmmakers demonstrated not only how an engaging narrative technique could be brought to bear upon social issues but also how cinema could shape and redefine national identity. The fourteen essays in Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema consider films from Italy, India, Brazil, Africa, the Czech Republic, postwar Germany, Hong Kong, the United States, France, Belgium, Colombia, and Great Britain. Each essay explores neorealism's complex relationship to a different national film tradition, style, or historical period, illustrating the profound impact of neorealism and the ways it continues to complicate the relationship between ideas of nation, national cinema, and national identity. Many of the essays identify similar themes or motifs adapted from neorealism, and several essays address a politicized national film tradition that developed in opposition to a monolithic Western aesthetic. In all, Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema provides a novel critical understanding of the wide-ranging international impact of a short period in Italian cultural history. Film scholars and students of film history will appreciate this insightful text.

Italian Neorealism

Mark Shiel
Italian Neorealism Book PDF

Author : Mark Shiel
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904764487

Get Book

Italian Neorealism by Mark Shiel Pdf

Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the roots and causes of neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and style, Mark Shiel examines the portrayal of the city and the legacy left by filmmakers such as Rossellini, De Sica, and Visconti. Films studied include Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Bicycle Thief (1948), and Umberto D. (1952).

Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism

Millicent Marcus
Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism Book PDF

Author : Millicent Marcus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780691209470

Get Book

Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism by Millicent Marcus Pdf

The movement known as neorealism lasted seven years, generated only twenty-one films, failed at the box office, and fell short of its didactic and aesthetic aspirations. Yet it exerted such a profound influence on Italian cinema that all the best postwar directors had to come to terms with it, whether in seeming imitation (the early Olmi), in commercial exploitation (the middle Comencini) or in ostensible rejection (the recent Tavianis). Despite the reactionary pressures of the marketplace and the highly personalized visions of Fellini, Antonioni. And Visconti, Italian cinema has maintained its moral commitment to use the medium in socially responsible ways--if not to change the world, as the first neorealists hoped, then at least to move filmgoers to face the pressing economic, political, and human problems in their midst. From Rossellini's Open City (1945) to the Taviani brothers' Night of the Shooting Stars (1982). The author does close readings of seventeen films that tell the story of neorealism's evolving influence on Italian postwar cinematic expression. Other films discussed are De Sica's Bicycle Thief and Umberto D. De Santis's Bitter Rice, Comencini's Bread, Love, and Fantasy, Fellini's La strada, Visconti's Senso, Antonioni's Red Desert, Olmi's Il Posto, Germi's Seduced and Abandoned, Pasolini's Teorema, Petri's Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion, Bertolucci's The Conformist, Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli, and Wertmuller's Love and Anarchy, Scola's We All Loved Each Other So Much provides the occasion for the author's own retrospective consideration of how Italian cinema has fulfilled, or disappointed, the promise of neorealism.

André Bazin and Italian Neorealism

André Bazin,Bert Cardullo
Andr Bazin and Italian Neorealism Book PDF

Author : André Bazin,Bert Cardullo
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441170750

Get Book

André Bazin and Italian Neorealism by André Bazin,Bert Cardullo Pdf

A new collection of posthumous writings by André Baz

Global Neorealism

Saverio Giovacchini,Robert Sklar
Global Neorealism Book PDF

Author : Saverio Giovacchini,Robert Sklar
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628468885

Get Book

Global Neorealism by Saverio Giovacchini,Robert Sklar Pdf

Contributions by Nathaniel Brennan, Luca Caminati, Silvia Carlorosi, Caroline Eades, Saverio Giovacchini, Paula Halperin, Neepa Majumdar, Mariano Mestman, Hamid Naficy, Sada Niang, Masha Salazkina, Sarah Sarzynski, Robert Sklar, and Vito Zagarrio Intellectual, cultural, and film historians have long considered neorealism the founding block of post-World War II Italian cinema. Neorealism, the traditional story goes, was an Italian film style born in the second postwar period and aimed at recovering the reality of Italy after the sugarcoated moving images of fascism. Lasting from 1945 to the early 1950s, neorealism produced world-renowned masterpieces such as Roberto Rossellini's Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City, 1945) and Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1947). These films won some of the most prestigious film awards of the immediate postwar period and influenced world cinema. This collection brings together distinguished film scholars and cultural historians to complicate this nation-based approach to the history of neorealism. The traditional story notwithstanding, the meaning and the origins of the term are problematic. What does neorealism really mean, and how Italian is it? Italian filmmakers were wary of using the term and Rossellini preferred "realism." Many filmmakers confessed to having greatly borrowed from other cinemas, including French, Soviet, and American. Divided into three sections, Global Neorealism examines the history of this film style from the 1930s to the 1970s using a global and international perspective. The first section examines the origins of neorealism in the international debate about realist esthetics in the 1930s. The second section discusses how this debate about realism was “Italianized” and coalesced into Italian “neorealism” and explores how critics and film distributors participated in coining the term. Finally, the third section looks at neorealism’s success outside of Italy and examines how film cultures in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the United States adjusted the style to their national and regional situations.

Brutal Vision

Karl Schoonover
Brutal Vision Book PDF

Author : Karl Schoonover
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780816675548

Get Book

Brutal Vision by Karl Schoonover Pdf

How spectacular visions of physical suffering in post–World War II Italian neorealist films redefined moviegoing as a form of political action

Italian Neorealism

Charles L. Leavitt IV
Italian Neorealism Book PDF

Author : Charles L. Leavitt IV
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781487507107

Get Book

Italian Neorealism by Charles L. Leavitt IV Pdf

This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism - an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class - through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.

Cinema of Anxiety

Vincent F. Rocchio
Cinema of Anxiety Book PDF

Author : Vincent F. Rocchio
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292784963

Get Book

Cinema of Anxiety by Vincent F. Rocchio Pdf

The "new" realism of Italian cinema after World War II represented and in many ways attempted to contain the turmoil of a society struggling to rid itself of Fascism while fighting off the threat of radical egalitarianism at the same time. In this boldly revisionist book, Vincent F. Rocchio combines Lacanian psychoanalysis with narratology and Marxist critical theory to examine the previously neglected relationship between Neorealist films and the historical spectators they address. Rocchio builds his analysis around case studies of the films Rome: Open City, Bicycle Thieves, La Terra Trema, Bitter Rice, and Senso. Through the lens of psychoanalysis, he challenges the traditional understanding of Neorealism as a progressive cinema and instead reveals the anxieties it encodes: a society in political turmoil, an economic system in collapse, and a national cinema in ruins; while war, occupation, collaboration, and retaliation remain a part of everyday life. These case studies demonstrate how Lacanian psychoanalysis can play a key role in analyzing the structure of cinematic discourse and its strategies of containment. As one of the first books outside of feminist film theory to bring the ideas of Lacan to theories of cinema, this book offers innovative methods that reinvigorate film analysis. Clear and detailed insights into both Italian culture and the films under investigation will make this engaging reading for anyone interested in film and cultural studies.

NeoRealismo

Enrica Vigano
NeoRealismo Book PDF

Author : Enrica Vigano
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783791357690

Get Book

NeoRealismo by Enrica Vigano Pdf

This stunning book explores Italian Neorealism in photography, as it documented Italy's economic and social conditions in the mid-20th century and its rise as a democratic nation. Originally used for Fascist propaganda, the camera in Italy became a tool for artists to reveal the poverty and oppression of their country and a way to instigate positive social development and create a national identity. The NeoRealismo style became a call for economic justice as well as an artistic movement that influenced the modern world. The achievements of that movement are celebrated in this book with more than 200 illustrations, including exquisitely reproduced photographs and magazine images as well as film stills and posters. Together these images portray the seismic changes that took place throughout Italy during and after the war. The migration from south to north, the rural and urban poverty, and the desire to establish a national identity are all given expression through the photographers' lenses. Accompanying essays discuss the technological changes that transformed the country, trace the evolution of Neorealist cinema, and explore how writers became part of this revolution. Beautiful, raw, and free of artifice, these images and the people who created them ushered a unique and fascinating moment in modern art history. Copublished by Admira and DelMonico Books

Filming the Nation

Donatella Spinelli Coleman
Filming the Nation Book PDF

Author : Donatella Spinelli Coleman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415555135

Get Book

Filming the Nation by Donatella Spinelli Coleman Pdf

Italian neo-realism has inspired film audiences and fascinated critics and film scholars for decades. This book offers an original analysis of the movement and its defining films from the perspective of the cultural unconscious. Combining a Jungian reading with traditional theorizations of film and national identity, Filming the Nation reinterprets familiar images of well-known masterpieces by Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio de Sica and Luchino Visconti and introduces some of their less renowned yet equally significant films. Providing an illuminating analysis of film images across a particularly traumatic and complex historical period, Filming the Nation revisits the concept of national identity and its 'construction' from a perspective that combines cultural, psychoanalytic and post-Jungian theories. As such this book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of film and psychoanalysis.

Calvino and the Age of Neorealism

Anonim
Calvino and the Age of Neorealism Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804766579

Get Book

Calvino and the Age of Neorealism by Anonim Pdf

Italo Calvino's reputation as one of the great writers of our century rests chiefly on his allegorical fables and fantastic narratives, whose inventiveness, irreverence, and elegant style are universally admired. In this study, the author focuses on Calvino's first novel, The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947), because in it she discerns a critical point of origin for Calvino's entire 'ethics' of writing. She shows how, in The Path, he challenges the poetics of objectivity of the Italian neorealists movement and offers a complex and ironic representation of the anti-Fascist armed resistance in Italy. Situating Calvino's early work in its historical and cultural context, the author reassesses Italian neorealism in terms of the theories and critical debates about realism of such critics as Lukacs, Sartre, Brecht, Adorno, and Barthes. She analyzes neorealism's narrative practices and cultural and political implications, while setting neorealism in the context of the resistance and the postwar Reconstruction in Italy and giving readings of major neorealist texts (novels by Pavese and Vittorini, films by Rossellini, Visconti, and others) as well as relatively obscure minor ones. The heart of the book consists of readings of The Path from four different but intersecting critical perspectives: formalist-narratological, sociohistorical, psychoanalytic, and Bakhtinian. The readings assess the importance of Calvino's beginnings for the body of his work and incorporate relevant references to his later fiction and critical essays. Out of these multiple readings, the ironic estrangement of the real through the act of writing itself emerges as his key narratological strategy.

The Films of Federico Fellini

Peter Bondanella
The Films of Federico Fellini Book PDF

Author : Peter Bondanella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521575737

Get Book

The Films of Federico Fellini by Peter Bondanella Pdf

Examines the cinematic vision of the renowned Italian filmmaker.