Italian Neorealism

イタリアン・ネオレアリズモ / 1943–1952 / Style / Cinematic Visual Styles

Left the studio to film non-actors in the street, making postwar poverty and daily life the very subject — cinema on reality's side.

Location shooting / Non-professional actors / Available light / Postwar streets

アンナ・マニャーニ『無防備都市』1945『自転車泥棒』1948『無防備都市』資料(フランス国立図書館)

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
Roberto Rossellini / Vittorio De Sica / Cesare Zavattini's theory of the everyday

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Source: BFI — 10 great Italian neorealist films

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