Neorealist Film Culture, 1945-1954: Rome, Open Cinema (1) (Film Culture in Transition)

By: Francesco Pitassio

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 384 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040788929
Related ISBNs:: 9781040782934, 9781041183457, 9789089648006, 9781003700517
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/22/25
Copyrighted By:: F. Pitassio / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.