| The Films of Roberto Rossellini Contributor(s): Bondanella, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521398665 ISBN-13: 9780521398664 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $24.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1993 Annotation: '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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 92011012 |
| Series: Cambridge Film Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6" W x 8.94" (0.63 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |