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Bicycle Thieves
Robert Gordon
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Description for Bicycle Thieves
Paperback. Robert S.C. Gordon's illuminating study offers a critical re-appraisal of this classic film, which tells the moving story of one man and his son, as they search the streets of post-war Rome for a stolen bicycle. Gordon traces the film's planning and production history and the dynamic geography, geometry and sociology of the film that resulted. Num Pages: 96 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 228. 96 pages, 74 black & white halftones. Offers a critical re-appraisal of "Bicycle Thieves", which tells the story of one man and his son, as they search the streets of post-war Rome for a stolen bicycle. This title traces the film's planning and production history and the dynamic geography, geometry and sociology of the film that resulted. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: APF. Dimension: 190 x 137 x 11. Weight: 228.
Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette, 1948) is unarguably one of the most important films in the history of cinema. It is also one of the most beguiling, moving and (apparently) simple pieces of narrative ever made. The film tells the story of one man and his son, as they search fruitlessly through the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle; the bicycle which had offered the possibility of escape from the poverty and humiliation of long-term unemployment.
One of a cluster of extraordinary films to come out of post-war, post-Fascist Italy - loosely labelled 'neorealist' – ... Read more
Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette, 1948) is unarguably one of the most important films in the history of cinema. It is also one of the most beguiling, moving and (apparently) simple pieces of narrative ever made. The film tells the story of one man and his son, as they search fruitlessly through the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle; the bicycle which had offered the possibility of escape from the poverty and humiliation of long-term unemployment.
One of a cluster of extraordinary films to come out of post-war, post-Fascist Italy - loosely labelled 'neorealist' – ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844572380
SKU
V9781844572380
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About Robert Gordon
ROBERT S. C. GORDON is Reader in Modern Italian Culture, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and the author of A Difficult Modernity: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Italian Literature (Duckworth, 2005).
Reviews for Bicycle Thieves
'Robert S.C. Gordon excels at what this BFI series does so well - condensing and clarifying the film's essential elements and values - making it one of the best in the canon.' - Empire