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Autore |
Schoonover Karl |
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Titolo |
Brutal vision [[electronic resource] ] : the neorealist body in postwar Italian cinema / / Karl Schoonover |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-4529-4756-2 |
0-8166-8024-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Motion pictures - Italy |
Realism in motion pictures |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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