André Bazin and Italian neorealism / edited by Bert Cardullo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bazin, André, 1918-1958.

Contributor:

Cardullo, Bert.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Italy.

Motion pictures.

Italy.

Realism in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

vi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, [2011]

Summary:

Complementing an earlier work (Andre Bazin and Italian Cinema, this volume presents a collection of Bazin's writings on neorealism in English for the first time. Editor Cardullo (Izmir U. of Economics, Turkey) provides introductory and contextual essays and writes: "[This book] is aimed, as Bazin would want, not only at scholars, teachers, and critics of film but also at educated or cultivated moviegoers and students of the cinema at all levels." Among the directors and films discussed: Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, The Roof, Forbidden Christ, Umberto D., and Senso. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

"Defining the real: the film theory and criticism of André Bazin" / by Bert Cardullo

"What is neorealism?" / by Bert Cardullo

"Cinematic realism and the Italian school of the liberation" (Jan. 1948)

"La terra trema" (Visconti, 1948)

"Germany, year zero" (Rossellini, 1947)

"Bicycle thieves" (De Sica, 1948) (Nov. 1949)

"Vittorio De Sica: metteur en scène"

"Heaven over the marshes" (Genina, 1949) (May 1951)

"Neorealism, opera, and propaganda: forbidden Christ" (Malaparte, 1950) (July-Aug. 1951)

"The road to hope" (Germi, 1950) (Feb. 1952)

"Two cents' worth of hope" (Castellani, 1951) (July 1952)

"Umberto D." (De Sica, 1952) (Oct. 1952)

"In Italy"

"Is the Italian cinema going to disown itself?" (Dec. 1954)

"La Strada" (Fellini, 1954) (May 1955)

"Gold of Naples" (De Sica, 1954) (June 1955)

"In defense of Rossellini" (Aug. 1955)

"De Sica and Rossellini" (Sept. 1955)

"Senso" (Visconti, 1954) (Feb. 1956)

"Il bidone" (Fellini, 1955) (March 1956)

"The roof" (De Sica, 1956) (Dec. 1956)

"Neorealism returns: love in the city" (Fellini et alia, 1953) (March 1957)

"I vitelloni" (Fellini, 1953) (Oct. 1957)

"Fellini's voyage to the end of neorealism: The nights of Cabiria [1957]" (Nov. 1957). scène

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9781441177520

1441177523

9781441170750

1441170758

OCLC:

694396602