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

Author/creator Schoonover, Karl
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
Descriptionxxxiii, 283 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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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.
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LCCN 2011047053
ISBN9780816675548 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816675555 (pb : alk. paper)