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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462557503321

Autore

Schoonover Karl

Titolo

Brutal vision [[electronic resource] ] : the neorealist body in postwar Italian cinema / / Karl Schoonover

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2012

ISBN

1-4529-4756-2

0-8166-8024-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/612

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Italy

Realism in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- An inevitably obscene cinema: Bazin and neorealism -- The North Atlantic ballyhoo of liberal humanism -- Rossellini's exemplary corpse and the sovereign bystander -- Spectacular suffering: De Sica's bodies and charity's gaze -- Neorealism undone: the resistant physicalities of the second generation -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Film history identifies Italian neorealism as the exemplar of national cinema, a specifically domestic response to wartime atrocities. Brutal Vision challenges this orthodoxy by arguing that neorealist films-including such classics as Rome, Open City; Paisan; Shoeshine; and Bicycle Thieves -should be understood less as national products and more as complex agents of a postwar reorganization of global politics. For these films, cinema facilitates the liberal humanist sympathy required to usher in a new era of world stability. In his readings of crucial films and newly discovered documents from