Neorealist Film Culture 1945-1954: Rome Open Cinema Hardcover 4

Francesco Pitassio

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.

9789089648006

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Amsterdam University Press

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