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Italian Film

Italian Film . Twenties – lackluster industry devastated by war Influence of fascism (1922) Thirties – Under fascist control Combination of propaganda and entertainment So-called white telephone films Mother Earth (Allessondro Blasetti 1931) Forties Neo-realism

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Italian Film

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  1. Italian Film Twenties – lackluster industry devastated by war Influence of fascism (1922) Thirties – Under fascist control Combination of propaganda and entertainment So-called white telephone films Mother Earth (Allessondro Blasetti 1931) Forties Neo-realism Ossessione (Luchino Visconti1942) Moving camera Long take shooting Blunt and gritty prose Desperation in contemporary Italy Rome: Open City (Roberto Rossellini 1946) The Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica) Cesare Cavattini

  2. Precepts of Neorealism • Show things as they are not as we wish them to be • Use facts rather than fiction • Depict common man not heroes • Reveal the everyday not the exceptional • Show man’s relationship to his real society rather than his romantic dreams He above part of the credo championed by Zavattini

  3. Themes of neorealism • Social issues • End of war devastation • Poverty of lower classes • Unfeeling nature of bureaucracy • Common man • Workers • Unprofessional actors • Anti-fascist • Left oriented movement • Opposed by centrist to right government

  4. Open City • Roma citta aperta (more place specific title) • Roberto Rossellini • Film of Italian partisans in WWII • Mix of neorealism and melodrama

  5. The Bicylcle Thief • Ladri di biciclette (The Bicycle Thieves) • Vittorio de Sica • All non professional actors • Too critical for right • Not critical enough for left

  6. Legacy of Neorealism • Brief movement 1945-1951) • Influenced films of Third World Cinema • Non glossy productions • Non professional actors • Interest in social conditions not entertainment • Gave name of a style of unadorned filmmaking

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