Global Neorealism

This is an engaging discussion on the origins, influence, and legacy of Italian neorealism in cinema. Intellectual and cultural, film historians have long considered neorealism the foundation of post-World War II Italian cinema. Neorealism, the accepted history goes, was an Italian film style born i [...]
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This is an engaging discussion on the origins, influence, and legacy of Italian neorealism in cinema. Intellectual and cultural, film historians have long considered neorealism the foundation of post-World War II Italian cinema. Neorealism, the accepted history goes, was an Italian film style born in the post-war period and aimed at recovering the reality of Italy after the sugar-coated moving images of Fascism. Lasting from 1945 to the early 1950s, neorealism produced world-renowned masterpieces such as Roberto Rossellini's "Rome, Open City" (1945) and Vittorio De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves" (1947). These films won some of the most prestigious film awards of the immediate post-war period and influenced world cinema. "Global Neorealism" examines the origins, history, and impact of this film style from the 1930s to the 1970s using a global and international perspective.