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Brutal Vision : The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema /

Film history identifies Italian neorealism as the exemplar of national cinema, a specifically domestic response to wartime atrocities. Brutal Vision challenges this orthodoxy by arguing that neorealist films-including such classics as Rome, Open City; Paisan; Shoeshine; and Bicycle Thieves -should b...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Schoonover, Karl
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • An inevitably obscene cinema: Bazin and neorealism
  • The North Atlantic ballyhoo of liberal humanism
  • Rossellini's exemplary corpse and the sovereign bystander
  • Spectacular suffering: De Sica's bodies and charity's gaze
  • Neorealism undone: the resistant physicalities of the second generation
  • Conclusion.