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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 January 2010
      29 January 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511620225
      9780521392365
      9780521398664
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620225
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.497kg, 200 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.306kg, 200 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Film Classics
      Subjects:
      Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication, Western Art
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    Series:
    Cambridge Film Classics
    Subjects:
    Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication, Western Art
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    The Films of Roberto Rossellini traces the career of one of the most influential Italian filmmakers through close analysis of the seven films that mark important turning points in his evolution: The Man with a Cross (1943), Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), The Machine to Kill Bad People (1948–52), Voyage in Italy (1953), General della Rovere (1959) and The Rise to Power of Louis XIV (1966). Beginning with Rossellini's work within the fascist cinema, it discusses his invention of neorealism, a new cinematic style that resulted in several classics during the immediate postwar period. Almost immediately, however, Rossellini's continually evolving style moved beyond mere social realism to reveal other aspects of the camera's gaze, as is apparent in the films he made with Ingrid Bergman during the 1950s; though unpopular, these works had a tremendous impact on the French New Wave critics and directors. Rossellini's late career marks a return to his nonrealist period, now critically reexamined, in such works as the commercially successful General della Rovere, and his eventual turn to the creation of didactic films for television.

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    "Bondanella's excellent addition to the 'Cambridge Film Classics' series provides an overview of the work of the originator of Italian neorealism....There is a real depth to Bondanella's analysis of Rossellini's ideology and to his discussion of innvovations in cinematic technique such as the 'Pancinor zoom.' Chronology, filmology, and bibliography as well as invaluable notes. An excellent introduction to Rossellini for undergraduate students of film, and the more advanced student or scholar should also benefit from the current bibliography and from some of the insightful analyses." Choice

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