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Bicycle Thieves (Paperback)
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Bicycle Thieves (Paperback)
Series: BFI Film Classics
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Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette, 1948) is unarguably one of
the most important films in the history of cinema. It is also one
of the most beguiling, moving and (apparently) simple pieces of
narrative ever made. The film tells the story of one man and his
son, as they search fruitlessly through the streets of Rome for his
stolen bicycle; the bicycle which had offered the possibility of
escape from the poverty and humiliation of long-term unemployment.
One of a cluster of extraordinary films to come out of post-war,
post-Fascist Italy - loosely labelled 'neorealist' - Bicycle
Thieves won an Oscar in 1949, topped the first Sight and Sound poll
of the best films of all time in 1952 and has been hugely
influential throughout world cinema ever since. It remains a
necessary point of reference for any cinematic engagement with the
labyrinthine experience of the modern city, the travails of poverty
in the contemporary world, the complex bond between fathers and
sons, and the capacity of the camera to capture something like the
essence of all of these. Robert S. C. Gordon's BFI Film Classics
volume shows how Bicycle Thieves is ripe for re-viewing, for
rescuing from its worthy status as a neorealist 'classic'. It looks
at the film's drawn-out planning and production history, the
vibrant and riven context in which it was made, and the dynamic
geography, geometry and sociology of the film that resulted. ROBERT
S. C. GORDON is Reader in Modern Italian Culture, Gonville and
Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK.
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