Neorealist film culture, 1945-1954 : Rome, open cinema /
Pitassio, Francesco,
Neorealist film culture, 1945-1954 : Rome, open cinema / Francesco Pitassio. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019. - 1 online resource (384 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Film culture in transition. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).
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.
9789048526253 (ebook)
Realism in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History.--Italy
791.436120945
Neorealist film culture, 1945-1954 : Rome, open cinema / Francesco Pitassio. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019. - 1 online resource (384 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Film culture in transition. .
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).
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.
9789048526253 (ebook)
Realism in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History.--Italy
791.436120945