Brutal vision [[electronic resource] ] : the neorealist body in postwar Italian cinema / / Karl Schoonover
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Schoonover Karl
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| Titolo: |
Brutal vision [[electronic resource] ] : the neorealist body in postwar Italian cinema / / Karl Schoonover
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/612 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures - Italy |
| Realism in motion pictures | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Brutal vision |
| ISBN: | 1-4529-4756-2 |
| 0-8166-8024-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462557503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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