Realism Neorealism And Reality

Author : Saverio Giovacchini
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628468882
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Neorealism written by Saverio Giovacchini and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Nathaniel Brennan, Luca Caminati, Silvia Carlorosi, Caroline Eades, Saverio Giovacchini, Paula Halperin, Neepa Majumdar, Mariano Mestman, Hamid Naficy, Sada Niang, Masha Salazkina, Sarah Sarzynski, Robert Sklar, and Vito Zagarrio Intellectual, cultural, and film historians have long considered neorealism the founding block of post-World War II Italian cinema. Neorealism, the traditional story goes, was an Italian film style born in the second postwar period and aimed at recovering the reality of Italy after the sugarcoated moving images of fascism. Lasting from 1945 to the early 1950s, neorealism produced world-renowned masterpieces such as Roberto Rossellini's Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City, 1945) and Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1947). These films won some of the most prestigious film awards of the immediate postwar period and influenced world cinema. This collection brings together distinguished film scholars and cultural historians to complicate this nation-based approach to the history of neorealism. The traditional story notwithstanding, the meaning and the origins of the term are problematic. What does neorealism really mean, and how Italian is it? Italian filmmakers were wary of using the term and Rossellini preferred "realism." Many filmmakers confessed to having greatly borrowed from other cinemas, including French, Soviet, and American. Divided into three sections, Global Neorealism examines the history of this film style from the 1930s to the 1970s using a global and international perspective. The first section examines the origins of neorealism in the international debate about realist esthetics in the 1930s. The second section discusses how this debate about realism was “Italianized” and coalesced into Italian “neorealism” and explores how critics and film distributors participated in coining the term. Finally, the third section looks at neorealism’s success outside of Italy and examines how film cultures in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the United States adjusted the style to their national and regional situations.

Author : Edwin Bissell Holt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Realism written by Edwin Bissell Holt and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrea Busto
Publisher : Silvana
ISBN 13 : 9788836635283
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Realism, neorealism and reality written by Andrea Busto and published by Silvana. This book was released on 2016 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Berengo Gardin to Giacomelli, Migliori, Patellani, and to Ghirri and Fontana, without forgetting Secchiaroli and the?paparazzi? season, this collection narrates Italian history between society and lifestyle. A collection built through the years with coherence and critical perspicacity, which from its early years has brought together big names of Italian photography and of international photography, such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Strand, Walter Evans. The first stage of this project is focused on Italian photography from the second postwar period.?Neo-realist Photography?. Transmigrations from the Rural Reality to the New Metropolitan Perspective 1945-1968 narrates social and urban changes which involved our country. A visual document, made of over one hundred vintage snapshots, which portrays a continuously changing Italy. Those are the years of the journeys from south to north, the reconstruction, the economic boom. Years of vital importance which defined Italian character and identity and which, today more than ever, are extremely topical because of the issues that were dealt with: migrations, urban transformations. 00Exhibition: Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy (28.10.2016-29.01.2017).

Author : Aitken Ian Aitken
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474402224
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Major Realist Film Theorists written by Aitken Ian Aitken and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1910s to the emergence of structuralism and post-structuralism in the 1960s, the writings of John Grierson, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Bazin and Georg Lukacs dominated realist film theory. In this critical anthology, the first collection to address their work in one volume, a wide range of international scholars explore the interconnections between their ideas and help generate new understandings of this important, if neglected, field. Challenging preconceptions about 'classical' theory and the nature of realist representation, and in the process demonstrating how this body of work can be seen as a cohesive theoretical model, this invaluable collection will help return the realist paradigm of film theory to the forefront of academic enquiry.

Author : Laura E. Ruberto
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814333242
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema written by Laura E. Ruberto and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the influence of Italian neorealist films on world cinema well beyond the post-World War II period associated with the movement. Despite its lack of organization and relatively short life span, the Italian neorealist movement deeply influenced directors and film traditions around the world. This collection examines the impact of Italian neorealism beyond the period of 1945-52, the years conventionally connected to the movement, and beyond the postwar Italian film industry where the movement originated. Providing a refreshing aesthetic and ideological contrast to mainstream Hollywood films, neorealist filmmakers demonstrated not only how an engaging narrative technique could be brought to bear upon social issues but also how cinema could shape and redefine national identity. The fourteen essays in Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema consider films from Italy, India, Brazil, Africa, the Czech Republic, postwar Germany, Hong Kong, the United States, France, Belgium, Colombia, and Great Britain. Each essay explores neorealism's complex relationship to a different national film tradition, style, or historical period, illustrating the profound impact of neorealism and the ways it continues to complicate the relationship between ideas of nation, national cinema, and national identity. Many of the essays identify similar themes or motifs adapted from neorealism, and several essays address a politicized national film tradition that developed in opposition to a monolithic Western aesthetic. In all, Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema provides a novel critical understanding of the wide-ranging international impact of a short period in Italian cultural history. Film scholars and students of film history will appreciate this insightful text.

Author : Dudley Andrew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Realism and Reality in Cinema written by Dudley Andrew and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert J. Lyons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Michelangelo Antonioni's Neo-realism: a World View written by Robert J. Lyons and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristiaan Versluys
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051833546
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book Neo-realism in Contemporary American Fiction written by Kristiaan Versluys and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy Armes
Publisher : New York : Garland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Patterns of Realism written by Roy Armes and published by New York : Garland. This book was released on 1986 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernest R. May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490923
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book History and Neorealism written by Ernest R. May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neorealists argue that all states aim to acquire power and that state cooperation can therefore only be temporary, based on a common opposition to a third country. This view condemns the world to endless conflict for the indefinite future. Based upon careful attention to actual historical outcomes, this book contends that, while some countries and leaders have demonstrated excessive power drives, others have essentially underplayed their power and sought less position and influence than their comparative strength might have justified. Featuring case studies from across the globe, History and Neorealism examines how states have actually acted. The authors conclude that leadership, domestic politics, and the domain (of gain or loss) in which they reside play an important role along with international factors in raising the possibility of a world in which conflict does not remain constant and, though not eliminated, can be progressively reduced.