Brutal vision : the neorealist body in postwar Italian cinema / Karl Schoonover.

Author/creator Schoonover, Karl
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.
Descriptionxxxiii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction -- An inevitably obscene cinema: Bazin and neorealism -- The North Atlantic ballyhoo of liberal humanism -- Rossellini's exemplary corpse and the sovereign bystander -- Spectacular suffering: De Sica's bodies and charity's gaze -- Neorealism undone: the resistant physicalities of the second generation -- Conclusion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011047053
ISBN9780816675548 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0816675546 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816675555 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0816675554 (pb : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN1995.9.R3 S365 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold