{"product_id":"italian-neorealist-cinema-christopher-wagstaff-9780802095206","title":"Italian Neorealist Cinema: An Aesthetic Approach","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe end of the Second World War saw the emergence of neorealist film in Italy. In Italian Neorealist Cinema, Christopher Wagstaff analyses three neorealist films that have had significant influence on filmmakers around the world. Wagstaff treats these films as assemblies of sounds and images rather than as representations of historical reality. If Roberto Rossellini's \u003cem\u003eRoma città aperta\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePaisà\u003c\/em\u003e, and Vittorio De Sica's \u003cem\u003eLadri di biciclette\u003c\/em\u003e are still, half a century after they were made, among the most highly valued artefacts in the history of cinema, Wagstaff suggests that this could be due to the aesthetic and rhetorical qualities of their assembled narratives, performances, locations, lighting, sound, mise en scène, and montage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume begins by situating neorealist cinema in its historical, industrial, commercial and cultural context, and makes available for the first time a large amount of data on post-war Italian cinema. Wagstaff offers a theoretical discussion of what it means to treat realist films as aesthetic artefacts before moving on to the core of the book, which consists of three studies of the films under discussion. Italian Neorealist Cinema not only offers readers in Film Studies and Italian Studies a radically new perspective on neorealist cinema and the Italian art cinema that followed it, but theorises and applies a method of close analysis of film texts for those interested in aesthetics and rhetoric, as well as cinema in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Wagstaff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802095208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802095206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.05w x 1.32d","brand":"Christopher Wagstaff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448963051775,"sku":"9780802095206","price":61.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9300cd7c-c84a-4ec3-871a-41743a5d527b.jpg?v=1777261363","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/italian-neorealist-cinema-christopher-wagstaff-9780802095206","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}