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Brutal vision : the neorealist body in postwar Italian cinema /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schoonover, Karl
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Realism in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Italy.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • An inevitably obscene cinema: Bazin and neorealism
  • The North Atlantic ballyhoo of liberal humanism
  • Rossellini's exemplary corpse and the sovereign bystander
  • Spectacular suffering: De Sica's bodies and charity's gaze
  • Neorealism undone: the resistant physicalities of the second generation
  • Conclusion.