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Document Type: | Book |
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Millicent Joy Marcus |
ISBN: | 0691102082 9780691102085 0691054894 9780691054896 |
OCLC Number: | 777020687 |
Description: | xix, 443 p. : il. ; 23 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | Film studies |
Responsibility: | Millicent Marcus. |
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"This is unquestionably one of the best works on Italian cinema I have read in any language. . . . an exceptional work that will become an instant classic on publication. It will be must reading for anyone interested in Italian culture in any way."-Ben Lawton, Purdue University Read more...
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