Roberto Rossellini's Rome open city / edited by Sidney Gottlieb.

Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City instantly, markedly, and permanently changed the landscape of film history. Made at the end of World War II, it has been credited with initiating a revolution in and reinvention of modern cinema, bold claims that are substantiated when its impact on how films...

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Other Authors: Gottlieb, Sidney
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2004.
Series:Cambridge film handbooks series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Open city : reappropriating the old, making the new / Sidney Gottlieb
  • Rossellini, Open city, and neorealism / Sidney Gottlieb
  • The making of Roma città aperta : the legacy of fascism and the birth of neorealism / Peter Bondanella
  • Celluloide and the palimpsest of cinematic memory : Carlo Lizzani's film of the story behind Open city / Millicent Marcus
  • Diverting clichés : femininity, masculinity, melodrama, and neorealism in Open city / Marcia Landy
  • Space, rhetoric, and the divided city in Roma città aperta / David Forgacs
  • Mourning, melancholia, and the popular front : Roberto Rossellini's beautiful revolution / Michael P. Rogin
  • Reviews of Open city.