Italian film in the light of neorealism

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Rossellini's Open city : the founding

De Sica's Bicycle thief : casting shadows on the visionary city

De Santis's Bitter rice : a neorealist hybrid

De Sica's Umberto D : dark victory for neorealism

Comencini's Bread, love, and fantasy : consumable realism

Fellini's La strada : transcending neorealism

Visconti's Senso : the Risorgimento according to Gramsci

Antonioni's Red desert : abstraction as the guiding idea

Olmi's Il posto : discrediting the economic miracle

Germi's Seduced and abandoned : inside the honor code

Pasolini's Teorema : the halfway revolution

Petri's Investigation of a citizen above suspicion : power as pathology

Bertolucci's The conformist : a morals charge

Wertmuller's Love and anarchy : the high price of commitment

Rosi's Christ stopped at Eboli : a tale of two Italies

The Taviani brothers' Night of the shooting stars : ambivalent tribute to neorealism

Scola's We all loved each other so much : an epilogue