Where results make sense

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us

Info and facts on 'Italian neorealism'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Italian neorealism (additional info and facts about neorealism) is a film (Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies) movement lasting from about 1943 to 1952. Neorealism was first introduced to the world in 1946 with Roma, città aperta (Rome, Open City), which was the first major film to come out Italy after the war. Arguably, something of neorealism can be found in most Italian cinema and often also in TV (Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects) fiction (A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact). www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/it/italian_neorealism.htm   (1113 words)

Neorealism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Neorealism or structural realism is a theory of international relations, outlined by Kenneth Waltz in his 1979 book, Theory of International Politics. Neorealism, developed largely within the American political science tradition, seeks to reformulate the classical realism tradition of E.H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, and Reinhold Niebuhr into a rigorous and positivistic social science. Neorealism eschews classical realism's use of often essentialist concepts such as "human nature" to explain international politics. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neorealism   (436 words)

Italian neorealism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia At the height of neorealism, in 1948, Luchino Visconti adapted I malavoglia, a novel by Giovanni Verga, written at the height of the 19th century realist verismo movement (in many ways the basis for neorealism), bringing the story to a modern setting, which resulted in remarkably little change in either the plot or the tone. Arguably, something of neorealism can be found in most Italian cinema and often also in TV fiction. Italian neorealism was inspired by French cinema verite (and deeply inspired the French New Wave), German Kammerspiel, and influenced the U.S. documentary movement and the Polish Film School. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_neorealism   (979 words)

Italian neorealism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Italian neorealism is a film movement lasting for about a decade after World War II The movement is characterized by realistic plots in long takes on location preferably using non- actors for secondary and sometimes primary roles. neorealism typically describes the difficult economical and conditions of Italy the changes in the mentality of people and in the everyday life after war : the defeat the poverty the desperation Open City is an exception: it is set the war and deals with resistance efforts). Italian Neorealism was inspired by French cinema verite (and deeply inspired the French New Wave) German Kammerspiel and influenced the American documentary movement. www.freeglossary.com /Italian_neorealism   (648 words)

Dueling realisms. Neorealism and postclassical realism do share important similarities: both have a systemic focus;(6) both are state-centric; both view international politics as inherently competitive; both emphasize material factors, rather than nonmaterial factors, such as ideas and institutions; and both assume states are egoistic actors that pursue self-help. Neorealism advances very few hypotheses about state behavior; the three principal hypotheses are: (1) balancing behavior constantly recurs, (2) states will be constrained from engaging in cooperation, and (3) states copy the advances made by rival powers (the "sameness effect"). Neorealism appears unsatisfactory not because the theory's conception of state behavior is wrong all of the time, but rather because the theory inflexibly claims that this perspective is operative under all circumstances. www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/brooks.htm   (10523 words)

Publicity Games of Film Journalism Neorealism could also be presented as a product, and buying this product (seeing the film) was one of the basic duties of every civilized (young urban) Finn. When Italian neorealism betrayed its mission and was declared dead, and when historical spectacles and light village farces started to flood from Italy to Finland, Finnish critics just had to swallow their disappointment. Neorealism finally managed to rid film traders of their prejudices, and the end justified the means. users.utu.fi /arikiv/art1/neorea.html   (759 words)

Whatever Happened to Neorealism?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Italian neorealism contrasts with previous forms of film realism in its stripping away of all expressionism and in particular in the total absence of the effects of montage... As Deleuze suggests, neorealism introduces a logic of the "encounter" (Cinema 2 1), which is also a suffusion of the new spaces available to the camera in its new exterior mobility: from studio set and montage to location shooting and the long shot, as Bazin observed. Neorealism is an attempt to open up the spaces which had been territorialized by plot and by narrative. www.art.man.ac.uk /SPANISH/staff/Writings/bazin.html   (5991 words)

Approaches to the Study of Foreign Policy Derived from International Relations Theories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Neorealism, utilitarian liberalism, and constructivism implicate accounts of the foreign policy of states which are not metatheoretically flawed. Thus, according to neorealism, it is states that seek to survive or, more precisely, it is states' desire to survive that is theoretically most relevant to the study of foreign policy. Neorealism's "structural bet" is the assumption that the pressures on states emanating from their international environment are strong enough to elicit similar behavior in similar structural positions. www.isanet.org /noarchive/rittberger.html   (3610 words)

Post War Italian Cinema in Finland The angry young men used Neorealism on one hand as a political weapon, on the other hand to elevate the opinion of their generation in the field of cinema culture. Neorealism was at some extent a weapon in the conflict between generations. Neorealism and the late 1950’s - early 1960’s Italian new generation film, not to mention the French New Wave, were the major examples when the Finnish New Wave was born. users.utu.fi /arikiv/art2   (5756 words)

Neorealism Italian neorealism typically describes the difficult economical and moral conditions of Italy, the changes in the mentality of the people and in the everyday life after the war: the defeat, the poverty, the desperation (Open City is an exception: it is set during the war and deals with resistance efforts). As a contrasting scheme with previous tendencies, Italian Neorealism refuses therefore the false depiction of world that was common in the canons of Telefoni Bianchi, even if it isn't ideally directed toward picaresque. Soon the pink neorealism was replaced by the Commedia all'Italiana (Italian Comedy), a unique genre that, born on an ideally humouristic line, talked instead very seriously about important social themes. www.jahsonic.com /Neorealism.html   (695 words)

Film as Art: Danél Griffin's Guide to Cinema Strongly realistic in its techniques, neorealism emphasized documentary aspects of film art, stressing loose episodic plots, unextraordinary event and characters, natural lighting, actual location settings, nonprofessional actors, a preoccupation with poverty and social problems, and an emphasis on humanistic and democratic ideas. Rossellini, regarded as the father of neorealism, went on to produce a steady string of neorealistic films, even after the era ended (his last film, 1975's The Messiah, detailed the private life of Christ when he wasn't teaching or performing miracles, in an attempt to grasp the personal nature of the Son of God). Neorealism has been compared to documentary filmmaking, but indeed, it is more realistic than most documentaries, which edit their interviews and footage to represent certain viewpoints in an effort to be at least somewhat cinematic. uashome.alaska.edu /~jndfg20/website/opencity.htm   (983 words)

Alexander Weber, Dismemberment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Returning to literary history and the term neorealism, we first have to specify distinctly which one we are talking about since the term is far from being as `new´ as it might seem. Another reason for preferring postmodern neorealism is, especially when it comes to a description of today´s media-saturated environment (again White Noise), that the more `realistic´ (in the sense of documentary) writers tend to be, the more `postmodern´ (in the sense of absurd and hilarious) their novels often tends to get. Ex-centric neorealism, thus, uses a culturally modified realistic mode of writing in order to represent experience which was formerly supressed, neglected or distorted by the cultural mainstream´s stereotyping. www.gradnet.de /papers/pomo2.archives/pomo99.papers/Weber99.htm   (5392 words)

Untitled Document Neorealism is characterized by social consciousness, simple stories of the common worker, and location shooting. Among the outstanding films produced during the height of neorealism between 1945 and 1952 were Open City (1945), Paisan (1947), La Terra Trema (1948), and The Bicycle Thief [1948]. Italian neorealism as a film style developed as a result of social and economic unrest in Italy that accompanied the end of World War II. italian.vassar.edu /federico/genres.html   (443 words)

International Relations Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Neorealism is widely regarded as a more scientific approach than classical realism because it is capable of explaining puzzling behavior by states. According to neorealism, the term “security dilemma” describes the condition in which states, unsure of others’ intentions, arm for the sake of security, setting in motion a vicious circle of response and counter-response. Neorealism ignores these factors, and neoliberalism (or neoidealism) seeks to expands the notion of self-interest to include the moral sphere. faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/430/430lect03.htm   (4392 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) "Neorealism arose unconsciously as a dialectical filmmaking and then acquired a conscious life in the heat of the human and social problems of wartime and the post-war years." Stone's subversion of "the bicycle school of Italian neorealism," is a psychoanalytic interpretation in order to derepress the unconscious motives and biographical revisionism of this so-called school of directors. The liberationist Catholicism of the neorealists, moreover, fails to address the trauma of Italy's distinct role in the Holocaust (Rossellini, Visconti, and De Sica are unable to provide the Freudian insights of Bertolucci and Pasolini into the sexual pathology of fascism). members.aol.com /jastonephd/neorealism.htm   (609 words)

DVD Verdict Review - Umberto D.: Criterion Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) He suspects that neorealism "is this build-up of purely optical situations" (2), in which characters move as if subject to "a certain motor helplessness" (3). In a sense, it was this next generation that drove neorealism into repose, making it a relic of a particular time and place. Its techniques were co-opted into mainstream, popular filmmaking, its stepchildren (Antonioni, the New Wave directors) moved on to more radical styles, and the genre became a tool by which increasingly mediocre filmmakers could pad out their budgets by claiming their "slice of life" movies were socially relevant. www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/umbertod.php   (2092 words)

Neorealism --  Encyclopædia Britannica Such films, called Neorealism in Italy and sometimes cinéma vérité in France, tried to achieve a... Italian short-story writer and novelist, known particularly for compassionate portraits of the Florentine poor during the Fascist era. One of the most notable developments in postwar cinema was the Italian neorealism movement of Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, and Roberto Rossellini, which emphasized simply shot stories filmed on location using nonprofessional actors. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9055278?&query=salvatore   (498 words)

filmjourney.org : I Vitelloni, neorealism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Thus, any discussion of Italian neorealism must be broad enough to encompass a wide diversity of cinematic styles, themes, and attitudes. No single or specific approach was taken and, therefore, much of the discussion which arose in the next decade over the "crisis" of neorealism or its "betrayal" by various directors was essentially groundless and founded upon ideological disagreements between various critics rather than any abrupt change on the part of the filmmakers themselves. Directors we label today as neorealists were a crucial part of a more general postwar cultural revolution which was characterized by a number of aesthetic and philosophical perspectives, all united only by the common aspiration to view Italy without preconceptions and to develop a more honest, ethical, but no less poetic cinematic language. filmjourney.weblogger.com /2004/04/02   (838 words)

The Austin Chronicle Screens: Che Bella The story -- about a communist underground leader being hunted down by the Gestapo -- was a collaboration, pieced together in large part from the experiences of the participants and their friends -- and what finally emerged was a taut, largely unvarnished vision of life as they had seen it lived over the past years. By the late 1950s, neorealism as a cohesive movement was pretty much played out. Accatone himself is the only one who seems to care that his life sucks; he hates being a pimp, but he can't seem to talk himself into trying to change. www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-01-19/screens_feature.html   (1923 words)

neorealism Neorealism is obviously of the artistic variety, because no success-oriented political force would stake its fortunes on the root word "real." But a group of Italian filmmakers in the 1940s did find fulfillment in being real--in a new way, that is. Their movies were distinguished by true-to-life plots and visual authenticity: straightforward The most common attribute of neorealism is location shooting and the dubbing of dialogue. Italy's move from individual concern with Neorealism to the tragic failure of the human condition can be seen through Fredrico Fellini's films. www.erin.utoronto.ca /~jcampana/342/overview.html   (2323 words)

Long take (and Neorealism) Scott) This is not to say that there is no sense of rhythm; indeed, the distinction in Hou's use of the long take is the expansive sense of a steady progression of shots at the slowest of beats, articulated by a profound application of ellipsis that is described below. In general, this comparison has surfaced more in regards to New Taiwan Cinema (especially for its deployment of non-actors), as neorealism remains the standard against which any self- proclaimed realism is measured. Thus neorealism is not an operative model here; its reputation in the history of cinema is simply hard to ignore. cinemaspace.berkeley.edu /Papers/CityOfSadness/slong.html   (480 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Bicycle Thief, The at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) Neorealism - This wonderful Italian 1948 classic directed by Vittorio de Sica is an emotional depiction of degradation of the soul, loss of humanity and dignity. Neorealism involves the use of location settings, non-actor roles, and conversational dialogue instead of literary dialogue, simple camerawork and editing. Make a note that the child and father were not real actors, this is an element of neorealism. www.epinions.com /content_19080318596   (956 words)

Neorealism and its critics In examining Chapters six through eight of Robert O. Keohane's Neorealism and Its Critics, one finds stark differences between the approaches of the first two authors, and of the last. The first two, John Gerard Ruggie and Keohane, both are critiquing neorealism from more or less within the paradigm, while Robert W. Cox is standing outside in forming his attack. In conclusion, each of the three articles has merit in that they represent a critique of realism from three major paradigms: Ruggie from within realism; Keohane and idealism; and Cox and Marxism. www.hfienberg.com /irtheory/neorealism.html   (1572 words)

Final Paper - Kiarostami as the Neorealist extraordinarre Neorealism dictates that the films made in its style, and the wake of whatever oppressive The reflexivity of these films is very much an offshoot of neorealism. neorealism purports to examine the recent years in a country’s history, its tragedy, a need www.geocities.com /cinemaben/kiarostami.htm   (3075 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us   Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.