Select any one of the following films and discuss what, in your opinion, makes it a Neorealist film: La terra trema (L. Visconti, Italy, 1948), Ossessione (L. Visconti, Italy, 1943), Ladri di biciclette (V. De Sica, Italy, 1948), Roma, città aperta (R. Rossellini, Italy, 1945), Paisà (R. Rossellini, Italy, 1946), Germania, anno zero (R. Rossellini, Italy, 1948).
Essential Bibliography:
Morandini, M. (1996) ‘Italy from Fascism to Neo-Realism’, in Nowell-Smith, G. (ed.) The Oxford history of world cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 353-61.
Morandini, M. (1996) ‘Italy: Auteurs and After’, in Nowell-Smith, G. (ed.) The Oxford history of world cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 586-96.
Monticelli. S. (1998) ‘Italian post-war cinema and Neo-Realism’, in Hill, J. and Church Gibson, P. (eds) The Oxford guide to film studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 455-60.
Harvard referencing please
