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Neorealist Film Culture, 1945–1954. Rome, Open Cinema


Neorealist Film Culture, 1945–1954. Rome, Open Cinema, di F. Pitassio

Neorealist Film Culture, 1945–1954. Rome, Open Cinema


  • Autore/i: Francesco Pitassio
  • Editore: Amsterdam University Press
  • Luogo: Amsterdam
  • Anno di pubblicazione: 2019
  • ISBN: 9789089648006

Neorealist Film Culture, 1945–1954. Rome, Open Cinema


  • Autore/i: Francesco Pitassio
  • Editore: Amsterdam University Press
  • Luogo: Amsterdam
  • Anno di pubblicazione: 2019
  • ISBN: 9789089648006
Neorealist Film Culture, 1945–1954. Rome, Open Cinema, di F. Pitassio

Unique, truthful, brutal... Neorealism is often associated with adjectives stressing its peculiarities in representing the real, its lack of antecedents, and its legacy in terms of film style. While this is useful when confronting auteurs such as De Sica, Rossellini or Visconti, it becomes problematic when examining a widespread cultural practice that realistic modes deeply affected. This cultural production included filmmaking, literature, visual culture and photography, as well as media discourses. It was internally contradictory but fruitful inasmuch as its legacy influenced national culture for many decades to come.

The volume spotlights post-war Italian film culture by locating a series of crossroads, i.e. topics barely examined when discussing neorealism: nation, memory and trauma, visual culture, stardom, and performance. The aim is to deconstruct neorealism as a monument and to open up its cultural history.

FRANCESCO PITASSIO è professore ordinario di Cinema, Fotografia e Televisione presso il Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici e del Patrimonio Culturale dell'Università di Udine. I suoi interessi di ricerca ruotano attorno l'attorialità e il divismo, la storia e la cultura cinematografica italiana, il cinema documentario e il cinema europeo. È membro del direttivo del NECSUS-European Network for Cinema and Media Studies.