Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rossellini's Open city : the founding
  • De Sica's Bicycle thief : casting shadows on the visionary city
  • De Santis's Bitter rice : a neorealist hybrid
  • De Sica's Umberto D : dark victory for neorealism
  • Comencini's Bread, love, and fantasy : consumable realism
  • Fellini's La strada : transcending neorealism
  • Visconti's Senso : the Risorgimento according to Gramsci
  • Antonioni's Red desert : abstraction as the guiding idea
  • Olmi's Il posto : discrediting the economic miracle
  • Germi's Seduced and abandoned : inside the honor code
  • Pasolini's Teorema : the halfway revolution
  • Petri's Investigation of a citizen above suspicion : power as pathology
  • Bertolucci's The conformist : a morals charge
  • Wertmuller's Love and anarchy : the high price of commitment
  • Rosi's Christ stopped at Eboli : a tale of two Italies
  • The Taviani brothers' Night of the shooting stars : ambivalent tribute to neorealism
  • Scola's We all loved each other so much : an epilogue.