Brutal vision
Subtitle: the neorealist body in postwar Italian cinema
By: Karl Schoonover
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780816675548; 9780816675555
Subjects: Motion pictures; Realism in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: An inevitably obscene cinema: Bazin and neorealism; title: The North Atlantic ballyhoo of liberal humanism; title: Rossellini's exemplary corpse and the sovereign bystander; title: Spectacular suffering: De Sica's bodies and charity's gaze; title: Neorealism undone: the resistant physicalities of the second generation; title: Conclusion.