Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema

by Luca Barattoni

Book Overview

Unlike countries like France, the Czech Republic or Brazil, Italy did not have a new wave properly understood as a movement. However, while new artistic schools were emerging in many other countries, Italy was undergoing its most dramatic social and economic transformations. Those violent changes, together with the perceived necessity of renewing the aesthetic heritage of Neorealism, sparked a drastic regeneration of the cinematic language and marked...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748640541
• ISBN13: 9780748640546
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher