1.

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910688359003321

Titolo

Doubts, Problems and Certainties about Acute Appendicitis / / edited by Angelo Guttadauro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : IntechOpen, , 2022

©2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 106 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

616.34

Soggetti

Acute toxicity testing

Gastroenterology

Appendicitis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Acute appendicitis is a common pediatric abdominal emergency, although it can occur in any age group. The debated role of imaging in diagnosis and diagnostic delays make diagnosis particularly challenging in the elderly. Given the heterogeneity of the population that may be affected by this disease, it is not possible to stipulate a universally valid diagnostic process. As such, an individualized approach guided by age, sex, comorbidities, and clinical manifestations is always necessary. This book reviews the current state of the art in acute appendicitis to help surgeons administer proper and timely treatment.