Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City
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- Editor: Sidney Gottlieb, Sacred Heart University, Connecticut
- Date Published: June 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521545198
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Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, the film has been credited with initiating a revolution in and reinvention of modern cinema. This volume offers an original overview of the production history of Rome Open City; some of its key images, the complexity of its political dimensions, and the legacy of the film in public consciousness. It serves as an accessible introduction to one of the major achievements of filmmaking.
Read more- Comprehensive - addresses a wide variety of key topics including the film's origin, influence, distinctive style, and use of gender
- Accessible - readable and well-suited towards students and audiences interested in film
- Authoritative - contributors are leading scholars on Rossellini and Italian film
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- Date Published: June 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521545198
- length: 206 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.29kg
- contains: 23 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: Open City: reappropriating the old, making the new Sidney Gottlieb
1. Rossellini, Open City, and neorealism Sidney Gottlieb
2. The making of Roma città aperta: the legacy of fascism and the birth of neorealism Peter Bondanella
3. Celluloide and the palimpsest of cinematic memory: Carlo Lizzani's film of the story behind Open City Millicent Marcus
4. Diverting clichés: femininity, masculinity, melodrama, and neorealism in Open City Marcia Landy
5. Space, rhetoric, and the divided city in Roma città aperta David Forgacs
6. Mourning, melancholia, and the popular front: Roberto Rossellini's beautiful revolution Michael P. Rogin
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