Unique truthful brutal... Neorealism is often associated with adjectives stressing its peculiarities in representing the real its lack of antecedents and its legacy in terms of film style. While this is useful when confronting auteurs such as De Sica Rossellini or Visconti it becomes problematic when examining a widespread cultural practice that realistic modes deeply affected. This cultural production included filmmaking literature visual culture and photography as well as media discourses. It was internally contradictory but fruitful inasmuch as its legacy influenced national culture for many decades to come. The volume spotlights post-war Italian film culture by locating a series of crossroads i.e. topics barely examined when discussing neorealism: nation memory and trauma visual culture stardom and performance. The aim is to deconstruct neorealism as a monument and to open up its cultural history. |Neorealist Film Culture 1945-1954 Rome Open Cinema
