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ISBN 10: 0802095208

ISBN 13: 9780802095206

Author: Christopher Wagstaff

The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence on filmmakers around the world. Wagstaff treats these films as assemblies of sounds and images rather than as representations of historical reality. If Roberto Rossellini’s Roma città aperta and Paisà, and Vittorio De Sica’s Ladri di biciclette are still, half a century after they were made, among the most highly valued artefacts in the history of cinema, Wagstaff suggests that this could be due to the aesthetic and rhetorical qualities of their assembled narratives, performances, locations, lighting, sound, mise en scène, and montage.

This volume begins by situating neorealist cinema in its historical, industrial, commercial and cultural context, and makes available for the first time a large amount of data on post-war Italian cinema. Wagstaff offers a theoretical discussion of what it means to treat realist films as aesthetic artefacts before moving on to the core of the book, which consists of three studies of the films under discussion. Italian Neorealist Cinema not only offers readers in Film Studies and Italian Studies a radically new perspective on neorealist cinema and the Italian art cinema that followed it, but theorises and applies a method of close analysis of film texts for those interested in aesthetics and rhetoric, as well as cinema in general.

Italian Neorealist Cinema An Aesthetic Approach 1st Table of contents:

1 Overview

The Italian Cinema Industry

The Cultural Context

Films: Production and Screenwriting

The Pro-filmic

The Institution of Neorealism

2 Realism

Aesthetics

Reference

Narrative

Genre

Idealism

Realism

Cesare Zavattini

Rhetoric

A Note on Comedy

3 Roma città aperta

Photography

Lighting

Sound

Mise en scène

Performers

Costume

The Narrative: Story and Plot

Dramaturgy: Analysis of the Episode of the Shooting of Pina

Roma città aperta and Neorealism

4 Paisà

The Rome Episode

The Sicily Episode

The Monastery Episode

The Naples Episode

The Florence Episode

The Po delta Episode

Concluding Remarks on Paisà

5 Ladri di biciclette

Locations

Performers and Costume

Narrative

Analysis of Sequences

Concluding Remarks

Concluding Remarks

Appendices

1 A standard introduction to neorealism

2 Historical background for neorealism

3 Statistics of the Italian film industry

4 Categories of cinema in Italy, 1953

5 Number of tickets sold at cinema box offices in provincial capitals and in the rest of the provinc

6 Length (in days) of opening runs in cinemas in major Italian cities of neorealist films and Catene

7 Statistics of days of cinema showing, tickets sold, and box-office receipts in Italy, 1936–1960

8 Established film production companies in Italy, 1945–1953

9 Italian film production, 1945–1953

10 Directors of neorealist films, 1945–1953

11 Writers of neorealist films, 1945–1953

12 Directors of photography on neorealist films

13 Production arrangements and costs for five core neorealist films

14 Italian public’s reception of different categories of Italian films produced 1945–1953, and sub

15 Fifty-five ‘neorealist’ films

16 Filmographic details of Roma città aperta, Paisà, and Ladri di biciclette

17 Average shot length, pre-neorealism and neorealism

18 Average shot length, neorealist films

19 Average shot length, neorealist films of De Sica, Rossellini, Visconti, Antonioni

20 Scale (closeness) of shot comparison, Roma città aperta and other films (1)

21 Scale of shot comparison, Roma città aperta and other films (2)

22 Scale of shot comparison, Roma città aperta and other films (3)

23 Map of settings and locations for Paisà

24 Average shot length for different sections of Paisà

25 Scale of shot, Paisà – Po delta episode

26 Tammurriata nera

27 Map of locations for Ladri di biciclette

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