Università Roma Tre

NEOREALISM
Program: Origins and development of neorealism: relationships with the Italian cinema of the 30s and its framing in the political, moral, cultural and artistic climate of the postwar period. Production modes and reception. The plurality of ideologies, poetics and styles. The contamination of genres. The neorealistic iconography. The forms of the aesthetic renewal. The critical debate of the period. The historiographic re-examinations, the critical rereadings and the theoretical reflections from the 60s to the present time.

TEXTS: Gian Piero Brunetta, Il cinema neorealista italiano. Da “Roma città aperta” a “I soliti ignoti”, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2009; Paolo Noto e Francesco Pitassio, Il cinema neorealista, Archetipolibri, Bologna 2010; Stefania Parigi (a cura di), Paisà, Marsilio, Venezia 2005.
FILMOGRAPHY: Paisà (1946) by Roberto Rossellini; L'onorevole Angelina (1947) by Luigi Zampa; Germania anno zero (1948) by Roberto Rossellini; La terra trema (1948) by Luchino Visconti; Ladri di biciclette (1948) by Vittorio De Sica; Senza pietà (1948) by Alberto Lattuada; Riso amaro (1949) by Giuseppe De Santis; Il cammino della speranza (1950) by Pietro Germi; Miracolo a Milano (1950) by Vittorio De Sica; Due soldi di speranza (1951) by Renato Castellani. Films will be shown in full or in part during lessons. Dvd copies will be available at the Biblioteca "Lino Miccichè", via Ostiense 139.