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| Title |
Neo-Realism |
| Chapter/Web article title |
NeoWeb |
| Author(s) | Erik Voigt |
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| Site URL |
http://www.carlton.edu/curricular/MEDA/classes/media110/Voigt/paper2.html |
| Comments |
When looking at film which attempt to attain a level of realism, aesthetically and in their choice of subject matter, this has been a good source for understanding the way the Italians conveyed their reality. One can use this site to get a greater understanding of Italisn Neo-Realist films, when reading the essay when comparing contempoaray realist productions, like the essay which compares the Australian feature Mouth to Mouth (1978), by John Duigan as to the structure of a neo-Realist films,
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| Synopsis |
Privides sources a clear definition of Neo-realism:
"It defines a group of films that shared the core characteristics of method, the use of non-Professional actors, natural lighting, and location shooting; attitude and desire to get closer to everyday reality; subject matter, the lives of post war popular classes; and ideology, the hope of the renewal in its early years, and later a loss of hope of coinciding with the failure of the nenewal(Nowell-Smith, 87)" |
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