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1 online resource (533 pages) |
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Toronto Italian Studies |
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Toronto Italian studies.
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 |
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The Naples EpisodeThe 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 provinces, 1947-1955 |
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6 Length (in days) of opening runs in cinemas in major Italian cities of neorealist films and Catene7 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 |
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14 Italian public's reception of different categories of Italian films produced 1945-1953, and subsequently released 1945-195615 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) |
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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; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Plates |
| Summary |
Italian Neorealist Cinema offers readers a radically new perspective on neorealist cinema and the Italian art cinema that followed it, and theorises and applies a method of close analysis of film texts for those interested in aesthetics and rhetoric, as well as cinema in general |
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Print version record |
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De Sica, Vittorio -- 1901-1974 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Motion pictures -- Italy -- Aesthetics
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Motion pictures -- Italy -- History
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Realism in motion pictures.
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Rossellini, Roberto -- 1906-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics
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Realism in motion pictures
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Italy
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442685673 |
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1442685670 |
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