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Cinema after the War: Italian Neorealism and the Transition from Fascism to Democracy
This article examines the Italian cinema in the years of transition from Fascism to democracy. The cinema offers a privileged source for understanding experiences of loss, crisis, & deprivation that did not find a place in traditional narratives of Italy's reconstruction. Neorealist films i...
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Published in: | Annales : histoire, sciences sociales (French ed.) sciences sociales (French ed.), 2008-11, Vol.63 (6), p.1215-1248 |
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Language: | fre |
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Summary: | This article examines the Italian cinema in the years of transition from Fascism to democracy. The cinema offers a privileged source for understanding experiences of loss, crisis, & deprivation that did not find a place in traditional narratives of Italy's reconstruction. Neorealist films in particular sought to express the diffused sense of living through a transitional moment. Through an analysis of the film II bandito (Alberto Lattuada, 1946), I argue that it & other Neorealist movies trace an alternative historiography of this transition. The power of Neorealist films resides less in their reconstructions of documented historical reality than with their ability to convey realms of feeling & perception that testify to the difficulty of moving forward while coping with the legacies of Fascism & the war. Adapted from the source document. |
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ISSN: | 0395-2649 |