Del i serien Traditions in World Cinema

Italian Neorealist Cinema

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

AvTorunn Haaland

899 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Finns i fler format (1)

Inbunden

1 749 kr

Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

How has Italian neorealist cinema changed the boundaries of cinematic narration and representation? In this new study, Torunn Haaland argues that neorealism was a cultural moment based on individual optiques. She accounts for the tradition’s coherence in terms of its moral commitment to creating critical viewing experiences around underrepresented realities and marginalised people. By examining both acclaimed masterpieces and lesser known works, parallels are drawn to realist theories and to past and present cinematic traditions. The ways in which successive generations of directors have readopted, negotiated and broken with the themes and aesthetics of neorealist film are discussed and evaluated, along with neorealist tendencies in other arts, such as literature.An engaging and informative read for students and scholars in Italian Studies, Italian Neorealist Cinema presents a new approach to a key cinematic tradition, and so is essential reading for everyone working in the field of Film Studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-12-17
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt391 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTraditions in World Cinema
Antal sidor248
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748636129

Tillhör följande kategorier

Film inom Kultur

List of figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. A moment and a country; Chapter 2. Realism and neorealism; Chapter 3. Literary neorealism: narration and testimony; Chapter 4. Rossellini’s cities of war and resistance; Chapter 5. Wandering among De Sica’s urbanites: shoeshiners, bicycle thieves, miraculous outcasts and a man with a dog; Chapter 6. Visconti’s worlds of aestheticism and ideology: between tradition and invention, from country to city; Chapter 7. Faces and spaces of neorealism: from dystopian cities to utopian countries; Chapter 8. The journey beyond neorealism: streetwalkers, political rebels, anti-mafia resisters, stolen children and unwanted citizens; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

In recent years, Italian cinema—and in particular its highest moment, neo-realism—has enjoyed a revival within international scholarship. This has contributed to emphasize Italian cinema’s centrality and its fertile influence on all world cinema of the postwar period. Within this panorama, Torunn Haaland’s book appears as one of the most brilliant and most capable of combining rigorous documentation with a reading of cinema history as part of a larger cultural, political and social history of Italy in the postwar period, adding to this the passion of an authentic researcher.