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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.
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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