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Italian film in the light of neorealism / Millicent Marcus.

By: Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1986.Description: xix, 443 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691054894
  • 9780691054896
  • 0691102082
  • 9780691102085
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.I88 M28 1986
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Non-fiction Main Collection PN 1993.5 .I88 M28 1986 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5166553

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-436) and index.

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.

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