Global neorealism
Subtitle: the transnational history of a film style
By: edited by Saverio Giovacchini and Robert Sklar
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781617031229; 9781617031236
Subjects: Motion pictures; Realism in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the geography and history of global neorealism / Saverio Giovacchini and Robert Sklar; title: Before the (Neorealist) revolution / Vito Zagarrio; title: Soviet-Italian cinematic exchanges, 1920s 1950s: from early Soviet film theory to neorealism / Masha Salazkina; title: The role of documentary film in the formation of the neorealist cinema / Luca Caminati; title: "The exalted spirit of the actual": James Agee, critic and filmmaker, and the U.S. response to neorealism / Robert Sklar; title: Marketing meaning, branding neorealism: advertising and promoting Italian cinema in postwar America / Nathaniel Brennan; title: Neorealism: another "cinema de papa" for the French new wave? / Caroline Eades; title: "With an incredible realism that beats the best of the European cinemas": the making of Barrio Gris and the reception of Italian neorealism in Argentina, 1947-1955 / Paula Halperin; title: Living in peace after the massacre: neorealism, colonialism, and race / Saverio Giovacchini; title: From Italian neorealism to new Latin American cinema: ruptures and continuities during the 1960s / Mariano Mestman; title: Importing neorealism, exporting cinema: Indian cinema and film festivals in the 1950s / Neepa Majumdar; title: Neorealism and nationalist African cinema / Sada Niang; title: Documenting the social reality of Brazil: Roberto Rossellini, the Paraban; title: Documentary school, and the cinema novistas / Sarah Sarzynski; title: Neorealism Iranian style / Hamid Naficy; title: Epilogue: neorealism, cinema of poetry, and Italian contemporary cinema / Silvia Carlorosi.