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Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema

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Description for Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 18 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJP; AFKV; APF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 23. Weight in Grams: 390.

Film history identifies Italian neorealism as the exemplar of national cinema, a specifically domestic response to wartime atrocities. Brutal Vision challenges this orthodoxy by arguing that neorealist films—including such classics as Rome, Open City; Paisan; Shoeshine; and Bicycle Thieves—should be understood less as national products and more as complex agents of a postwar reorganization of global politics. For these films, cinema facilitates the liberal humanist sympathy required to usher in a new era of world stability.

In his readings of crucial films and newly discovered documents from the archives of neorealism’s international distribution, Karl Schoonover reveals how these films used ... Read more

These films redefine moviegoing as a form of political action and place the filmgoer at the center of a postwar geopolitics of international aid. Brutal Vision interrogates the role of neorealism’s famously heart-wrenching scenes in a new global order that requires its citizenry to invest emotionally in large-scale international aid packages, from the Marshall Plan to the liberal charity schemes of NGOs. The book fundamentally revises ideas of cinematic specificity, the human, and geopolitical scale that we inherit from neorealism and its postwar milieu—ideas that continue to set the terms for political filmmaking today.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816675555
SKU
V9780816675555
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About Karl Schoonover
Karl Schoonover is assistant professor of film studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University. He coedited the anthology Global Art Cinema: New Theories and Histories.

Reviews for Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema
"If there were ever any doubts about neorealism’s enduring power to generate fine scholarship, Karl Schoonover’s book should lay them to rest. To this most exhaustively studied body of films, the author brings a doubly original perspective-both geopolitically oriented and ethically charged. The result is a theory of spectatorship that goes far toward accounting for neorealism’s pivotal role in the ... Read more

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