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The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist
film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff
analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence
on filmmakers around the world. Wagstaff treats these films as
assemblies of sounds and images rather than as representations of
historical reality. If Roberto Rossellini's Roma citt aperta and
Pais , and Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette are still, half a
century after they were made, among the most highly valued
artefacts in the history of cinema, Wagstaff suggests that this
could be due to the aesthetic and rhetorical qualities of their
assembled narratives, performances, locations, lighting, sound,
mise en sc ne, and montage. This volume begins by situating
neorealist cinema in its historical, industrial, commercial and
cultural context, and makes available for the first time a large
amount of data on post-war Italian cinema. Wagstaff offers a
theoretical discussion of what it means to treat realist films as
aesthetic artefacts before moving on to the core of the book, which
consists of three studies of the films under discussion. Italian
Neorealist Cinema not only offers readers in Film Studies and
Italian Studies a radically new perspective on neorealist cinema
and the Italian art cinema that followed it, but theorises and
applies a method of close analysis of film texts for those
interested in aesthetics and rhetoric, as well as cinema in
general.
General
Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
December 2007 |
First published: |
December 2007 |
Authors: |
Christopher Wagstaff
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 34mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
514 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8020-9520-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8020-9520-8 |
Barcode: |
9780802095206 |
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