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Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism - Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's Italy (Hardcover)
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Stardom and the Aesthetics of Neorealism - Ingrid Bergman in Rossellini's Italy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
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In this exciting new book, Gelley both considers the significance
of the collaboration between Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman in light
of the neorealist aesthetic, and re-examines the director's
immediate postwar works in relation to the contemporary discussions
on Italian national identity. She argues that rather than marking a
radical break with the director's early neorealist successes,
Rossellini's films with Bergman in fact extend the boundaries of
the concept of neorealism and challenge the standard reading of
some of its basic tenets, especially regarding the relationship
between character and depicted settings, both urban and natural.
Gelley also aims to reassess the relationship between European
postwar and American cinema by looking at the ways in which the
image of the Hollywood star was translated and transformed when it
was imported into Rossellini's Italy. Rossellini's insertion of the
Hollywood star into the native landscape, Gelley shows, had a
significant influence on the evolution of the director's approach
to the neorealist aesthetic. His filming of the encounter between
Bergman and the Italian landscape involves not only a
re-interpretation and transformation of the Hollywood star persona,
but also a challenge to the idealized notion of an authentic
Italian national collective free from foreign influence. The
disruption which Bergman's character introduced into the Italian
landscape became one means whereby the director was able to explore
the ambivalence inherent in any attempt to construct a national
identity.
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