The roots of neorealism

• Autores: Pasquale Iannone
• Localización: Sight & sound, ISSN 0037-4806, Vol. 23, Nº 5, 2013, págs. 56-63
• Idioma: inglés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • Italian filmmakers in the immediate post-war period created their own cinematic language to capture the hardships of everyday life in a shattered nation. But though revolutionary in impact, the new realism was not a complete break with the past. Its roots went deep, to the work of directors in Italy and beyond which, over preceding decades, had prefigured the themes and formal innovation of a style that would become one of cinema's most influential movements