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Cinemas. --- Film archives. --- Film posters. --- Daisne, Johan, --- De Sica, Vittorio, --- Loren, Sophia, --- Archives.

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Motion picture film --- Cinéma --- Preservation. --- Conservation et restauration --- De Sica, Vittorio, --- Umberto D. (Motion picture)

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The end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence on filmmakers around the world. Wagstaff treats these films as assemblies of sounds and images rather than as representations of historical reality. If Roberto Rossellini's Roma città aperta and Paisà, and Vittorio De Sica's Ladri di biciclette are still, half a century after they were made, among the most highly valued artefacts in the history of cinema, Wagstaff suggests that this could be due to the aesthetic and rhetorical qualities of their assembled narratives, performances, locations, lighting, sound, mise en scene, and montage. This volume begins by situating neorealist cinema in its historical, industrial, commercial and cultural context, and makes available for the first time a large amount of data on post-war Italian cinema. Wagstaff offers a theoretical discussion of what it means to treat realist films as aesthetic artefacts before moving on to the core of the book, which consists of three studies of the films under discussion. Italian Neorealist Cinema not only offers readers in Film Studies and Italian Studies a radically new perspective on neorealist cinema and the Italian art cinema that followed it, but theorises and applies a method of close analysis of film texts for those interested in aesthetics and rhetoric, as well as cinema in general.

Motion pictures --- Realism in motion pictures. --- Cinéma --- Réalisme dans le cinéma --- Aesthetics. --- History. --- Esthétique --- Histoire --- Rossellini, Roberto, --- De Sica, Vittorio --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- De Sica, Vittorio, --- Cinéma --- Réalisme dans le cinéma --- Esthétique

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Recognized as a master of Italian cinema, Vittorio De Sica is perhaps best known and most respected for his critically acclaimed neorealist films of the period 1946-55. As this anthology reveals, however, his production was remarkably multifaceted. The essays included here - some newly commissioned, some reprinted, and others in translation - look at De Sica's varied career from many perspecives. Structured chronologically, the volume begins by introducing readers to De Sica's early popularity as an actor and singer during the years of Italian Fascism, and to his initial directorial efforts before the end of World War II. It was not until the postwar era, however, that De Sica made his mark in film history. Special attention is given to this critical phase of his career, which encompasses the neorealist films that made him famous: "Shoeshine", "Bicycle Thieves", "Miracle in Milan", and "Umberto D."When the neorealist movement waned after 1955, De Sica returned to his roots in Neapolitan comedy for a series of commercially successful films starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. Memorable works from this period include "Two Women" and "Marriage Italian Style" as well as "Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow", which won De Sica an Academy Award in 1965. In one of his final films, "The Garden of the Finzi Continis", he returned to the subject of World War II and to the human tragedy characteristic of his best neorealist productions. This fine anthology offers a comprehensive critical survey that covers the entire scope of De Sica's career, and is an excellent resource for students, critics and film enthusiasts.

De Sica, Vittorio, --- De Sika, Vittorio, --- Sica, Vittorio de, --- Ṭi. Cikā, Vikṭōriyā, --- De Sica, V. --- Sica, V. de --- Criticism and interpretation. --- De Sika, Vittorio --- Film --- Films. --- PERFORMING ARTS --- Electronic books. --- De Sica, Vittorio, -- 1901-1974 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Neorealismus. --- Film & Video --- History & Criticism. --- Direction & Production.

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