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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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.


