Brutal Vision: The Neorealist Body in Postwar Italian Cinema

by Karl Schoonover

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816675554
• ISBN13: 9780816675555
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"