Hollywood culture has been dismissed as insignificant for so long that film buffs and critics might be forgiven for forgetting that for two decades an unprecedented interaction of social and cultural forces shaped American film. In this probing account of how a generation of industry newcomers attem[...]
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[...]