The movement known as neorealism lasted seven years, generated only twenty-one films, failed at the box office, and fell short of its didactic and aesthetic aspirations. Yet it exerted such a profound influence on Italian cinema that all the best postwar directors had to come to terms with it, whether in seeming imitation (the early Olmi), in commercial exploitation (the middle Comencini) or in ostensible rejection (the recent Tavianis). Despite the reactionary pressures of the marketplace and the highly personalized visions of Fellini, Antonioni. And Visconti, Italian cinema has maintained its moral commitment to use the medium in socially responsible ways--if not to change the world, as the first neorealists hoped, then at least to move filmgoers to face the pressing economic, political, and human problems in their midst. From Rossellini's __Open City__ (1945) to the Taviani brothers' __Night of the Shooting Stars__ (1982). The author does close readings of seventeen films that tell the story of neorealism's evolving influence on Italian postwar cinematic expression.
Other films discussed are De Sica's __Bicycle Thief__ and Umberto D. De Santis's __Bitter Rice__, Comencini's __Bread, Love, and Fantasy__, Fellini's __La strada__, Visconti's __Senso__, Antonioni's __Red Desert__, Olmi's __Il Posto__, Germi's __Seduced and Abandoned__, Pasolini's __Teorema__, Petri's __Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion__, Bertolucci's __The Conformist__, Rosi's __Christ Stopped at Eboli__, and Wertmuller's __Love and Anarchy__, Scola's __We All Loved Each Other So Much__ provides the occasion for the author's own retrospective consideration of how Italian cinema has fulfilled, or disappointed, the promise of neorealism.

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Millicent Marcus; Project Muse

Millicent Joy Marcus

Princeton University, Department of Art & Archaeology

Book collections on Project MUSE, Princeton, N.J, 1987

Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1986

United States, United States of America

Princeton, N.J, New Jersey, 1986

First Edition, PS, 1987

Princeton, NJ, 2020

2, 2020

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Bibliography: p. [423]-436.
Includes index.

2023-08-25