Italian film in the light of neorealism
Print Book, English, 1986
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1986
xix, 443 p. : il. ; 23 cm
9780691102085, 9780691054896, 0691102082, 0691054894
777020687
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