Neorealist Film Culture, 1945-1954

Rome, Open Cinema
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-8964-800-6
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Film Culture in Transition

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pitassio, Francesco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Introduction, An Uncertain Direction. Neorealist cinema as Transitional Culture 1 Locating the Real. National, International, and Transnational Neorealism, 2 Lies of Memory. Post-war Culture, Remembrance, and Documentary Filmmaking, 3 Looking at the Images. Neorealist Visual Culture, 4 Actors, Non-professional Actors, Starlets, and Stars. Film Performance at the Time of Neorealism, Bibliography, About the Author, Name Index, Film Index

Über Autor(innen)

Francesco Pitassio is professor of Film Studies at the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage of the University of Udine. His research interests revolve around film acting and stardom, Italian film history and culture, documentary cinema, European cinema. He is a member of the editorial board of NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies.