Non-Professional Actor

Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond

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AvCatherine O'Rawe,UK) O'Rawe, Dr. Catherine (Bristol University

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Provides the first critical overview of acting, stardom, and performance in post-war Italian film (1945-54), with special attention to the figure of the non-professional actor, who looms large in neorealist filmmaking. Italian post-war cinema has been widely celebrated by critics and scholars: films such as Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948) and Paisan (Rossellini, 1946) remain globally influential, particularly for their use of non-professional actors. This period of regeneration of Italian cinema initiated the boom in cinemagoing that made cinema an important vector of national and gender identity for audiences.The book addresses the casting, performance, and labour of non-professional actors, particularly children, their cultural and economic value to cinema, and how their use brought ideas of the ordinary into the discourse of stars as extraordinary. Relatedly, O'Rawe discusses critical and press discourses around acting, performance, and stardom, often focused on the ‘crisis’ of acting connected to the rise of non-professionals and the girls (like Sophia Loren) who found sudden cinematic fame via beauty contests.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-12-14
Mått150 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501394355

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Catherine O’Rawe is Professor of Italian Film and Culture at the University of Bristol, UK. She is the author of Stars and Masculinities in Italian Cinema (2014), and co-author of Italian Cinema Audiences: Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Divi: la mascolinità nel cinema italiano (2015). She has published widely on stardom, gender, performance, and audiences.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Non-Professional Actor: Histories, Theories, Performances1. Acting, Stardom and the Non-Professional in Italy from Fascism to the Post-War2. Bodies, Voices, Afterlives: Case Studies of Bicycle Thieves’ Lamberto Maggiorani, and the Cast of La Terra Trema3. Girls, Stardom, and the Danger of Cinema4. The Non-Professional Child Actor: Beyond Bicycle Thieves5. The Non-Professional in Contemporary Global CinemaConclusionReferencesIndex

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