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The Non-Professional Actor - Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond
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The Non-Professional Actor - Italian Neorealist Cinema and Beyond
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Provides the first critical overview of acting, stardom, and
performance in post-war Italian film (1945-54), with special
attention to the figure of the non-professional actor, who looms
large in neorealist filmmaking. Italian post-war cinema has been
widely celebrated by critics and scholars: films such as Bicycle
Thieves (De Sica, 1948) and Paisan (Rossellini, 1946) remain
globally influential, particularly for their use of
non-professional actors. This period of regeneration of Italian
cinema initiated the boom in cinemagoing that made cinema an
important vector of national and gender identity for audiences. The
book addresses the casting, performance, and labour of
non-professional actors, particularly children, their cultural and
economic value to cinema, and how their use brought ideas of the
ordinary into the discourse of stars as extraordinary. Relatedly,
O'Rawe discusses critical and press discourses around acting,
performance, and stardom, often focused on the ‘crisis’ of
acting connected to the rise of non-professionals and the girls
(like Sophia Loren) who found sudden cinematic fame via beauty
contests.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Academic USA
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2023 |
Authors: |
Catherine O'Rawe
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
280 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5013-9435-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5013-9435-5 |
Barcode: |
9781501394355 |
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