In this exciting new book, Gelley considers the collaboration
between Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman in light of the neorealist
aesthetic. This study re-examines the director's postwar works in
relation to the contemporary discussion on Italian national
identity: rather than marking a radical break with the director's
early neorealist successes, Rossellini's films with Bergman in fact
extend the boundaries of neorealism and challenge the standard
reading of its basic tenets, especially the relationship between
character and setting. Gelley reassesses the relationship between
European postwar and American cinema, looking at how 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 had a significant
influence on 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
of foreign influence. The disruption of Bergman's character 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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