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- Summary
- One of the founding fathers of the Neo-realist movement and a Communist dedicated to populist filmmaking, Guiseppe De Santis (b. 1917) has been a significant force in Italian cinema. In spite of his crucial contribution De Santis has received little critical recognition and his work has been largely excluded from the canon of traditional cinematic teaching. In this first book-length study of De Santis, Antonio Vitti explores the filmmaker's life and work, and addresses why he has been marginalized as a result of the politics of critical reception in Italian cinema and within the academy. Through critical analysis of such films as Riso amaro (Bitter Rice), Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi ( No Peace Among the Olives), and Cesta Duga Godinu Dana (The One-Year-Long Road), Vitti offers an informative profile of a director who refused to compromise what were often unpopular political and aesthetic principles. De Santis emerged as a strong opponent of government censorship in Fascist Italy and strove throughout his career to remain faithful to his political objectives: to create a genuine popular narrative voice, and to offer, through filmmaking, a form of entertainment for the masses and a means of promoting social and political change. At the same time, possessed of considerable technical abilities and a passion for formalized beauty and sensuality, De Santis resisted the rigid rules for socio-realistic representation dictated by the Soviet Union. He conformed neither to the mainstream nor to the leftist critical expectations of his day. He anticipated, in his own critical approach, the direction of contemporary film theory, and focused on the role of the medium itself as a means of mass communication and a repository of collective imagination.Vitti draws on his extensive personal interviews with De Santis as well as on the latter's previously unpublished writings. This volume captures the intelligence, passion, aesthetic flair, and occasionally fiery temperament of this important filmmaker
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxv, 220 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Note
- "Filmography, Giuseppe De Santis ..."--Page [201]-209
- Contents
-
- 4.
- De Santis behind the Camera
- 5.
- And Then Came Silvana: Riso amaro (1949)
- 6.
- Myth and Reality among the Shepherds of Ciociaria: Non c'e pace tra gli ulivi (1950)
- 7.
- The Stairway of Dreams and Illusions: Roma, Ore 11 (1952)
- 8.
- Could an Italian Male Marry an Everyman's Woman? Un marito per Anna Zaccheo (1953)
- Foreword: Giuseppe De Santis: An Introduction
- 9.
- Honeymoon on a Bicycle: Giorni d'amore (1954)
- 10.
- A Fable of 'I Lupari, ' a Vanished Breed: Uomini e lupi (1957)
- 11.
- De Santis's Conception of Cinematic Realism: Cesta Duga Godina Dana/La strada lunga un anno (1958)
- 12.
- The End of the Bourgeois Family or Repugnance for a Transformed Society? La Garconniere (1960)
- 13.
- March On or Die: Italiani brava gente (1964)
- Ben Lawton
- 1.
- De Santis's Early Years: From Fondi to Rome
- 2.
- A Member of the Cinema Circle
- 3.
- A Dream Comes True: From Cinema to Ossessione
- Isbn
- 9781282008137
- Label
- Giuseppe De Santis and postwar Italian cinema
- Title
- Giuseppe De Santis and postwar Italian cinema
- Statement of responsibility
- Antonio Vitti
- Subject
-
- Biographies
- Cinéma -- Italie -- Histoire
- De Santis, Giuseppe
- De Santis, Giuseppe, 1917-1997
- De Santis, Giuseppe, 1917-1997
- Electronic books
- Film
- Filmproduzent
- Films
- History
- Italien
- Italy
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Motion picture producers and directors -- Italy -- Biography
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures -- Italy -- History
- Neorealismus
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video | History & Criticism
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference
- Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -- Italie -- Biographies
- Realism in motion pictures
- Realism in motion pictures
- Réalisme au cinéma
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- One of the founding fathers of the Neo-realist movement and a Communist dedicated to populist filmmaking, Guiseppe De Santis (b. 1917) has been a significant force in Italian cinema. In spite of his crucial contribution De Santis has received little critical recognition and his work has been largely excluded from the canon of traditional cinematic teaching. In this first book-length study of De Santis, Antonio Vitti explores the filmmaker's life and work, and addresses why he has been marginalized as a result of the politics of critical reception in Italian cinema and within the academy. Through critical analysis of such films as Riso amaro (Bitter Rice), Non c'è pace tra gli ulivi ( No Peace Among the Olives), and Cesta Duga Godinu Dana (The One-Year-Long Road), Vitti offers an informative profile of a director who refused to compromise what were often unpopular political and aesthetic principles. De Santis emerged as a strong opponent of government censorship in Fascist Italy and strove throughout his career to remain faithful to his political objectives: to create a genuine popular narrative voice, and to offer, through filmmaking, a form of entertainment for the masses and a means of promoting social and political change. At the same time, possessed of considerable technical abilities and a passion for formalized beauty and sensuality, De Santis resisted the rigid rules for socio-realistic representation dictated by the Soviet Union. He conformed neither to the mainstream nor to the leftist critical expectations of his day. He anticipated, in his own critical approach, the direction of contemporary film theory, and focused on the role of the medium itself as a means of mass communication and a repository of collective imagination.Vitti draws on his extensive personal interviews with De Santis as well as on the latter's previously unpublished writings. This volume captures the intelligence, passion, aesthetic flair, and occasionally fiery temperament of this important filmmaker
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- digitized
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- CaOTU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vitti, Antonio
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Toronto Italian studies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- De Santis, Giuseppe
- De Santis, Giuseppe
- De Santis, Giuseppe
- Motion pictures
- Realism in motion pictures
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Cinéma
- Réalisme au cinéma
- Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma
- PERFORMING ARTS
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- PERFORMING ARTS
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Motion pictures
- Realism in motion pictures
- Italy
- Neorealismus
- Filmproduzent
- Italien
- Films
- Film
- Label
- Giuseppe De Santis and postwar Italian cinema, Antonio Vitti
- Note
- "Filmography, Giuseppe De Santis ..."--Page [201]-209
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 4.
- De Santis behind the Camera
- 5.
- And Then Came Silvana: Riso amaro (1949)
- 6.
- Myth and Reality among the Shepherds of Ciociaria: Non c'e pace tra gli ulivi (1950)
- 7.
- The Stairway of Dreams and Illusions: Roma, Ore 11 (1952)
- 8.
- Could an Italian Male Marry an Everyman's Woman? Un marito per Anna Zaccheo (1953)
- Foreword: Giuseppe De Santis: An Introduction
- 9.
- Honeymoon on a Bicycle: Giorni d'amore (1954)
- 10.
- A Fable of 'I Lupari, ' a Vanished Breed: Uomini e lupi (1957)
- 11.
- De Santis's Conception of Cinematic Realism: Cesta Duga Godina Dana/La strada lunga un anno (1958)
- 12.
- The End of the Bourgeois Family or Repugnance for a Transformed Society? La Garconniere (1960)
- 13.
- March On or Die: Italiani brava gente (1964)
- Ben Lawton
- 1.
- De Santis's Early Years: From Fondi to Rome
- 2.
- A Member of the Cinema Circle
- 3.
- A Dream Comes True: From Cinema to Ossessione
- Control code
- ocn244767769
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxv, 220 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781282008137
- Lccn
- 96154392
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt2jwws6
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)244767769
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- Giuseppe De Santis and postwar Italian cinema, Antonio Vitti
- Note
- "Filmography, Giuseppe De Santis ..."--Page [201]-209
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 4.
- De Santis behind the Camera
- 5.
- And Then Came Silvana: Riso amaro (1949)
- 6.
- Myth and Reality among the Shepherds of Ciociaria: Non c'e pace tra gli ulivi (1950)
- 7.
- The Stairway of Dreams and Illusions: Roma, Ore 11 (1952)
- 8.
- Could an Italian Male Marry an Everyman's Woman? Un marito per Anna Zaccheo (1953)
- Foreword: Giuseppe De Santis: An Introduction
- 9.
- Honeymoon on a Bicycle: Giorni d'amore (1954)
- 10.
- A Fable of 'I Lupari, ' a Vanished Breed: Uomini e lupi (1957)
- 11.
- De Santis's Conception of Cinematic Realism: Cesta Duga Godina Dana/La strada lunga un anno (1958)
- 12.
- The End of the Bourgeois Family or Repugnance for a Transformed Society? La Garconniere (1960)
- 13.
- March On or Die: Italiani brava gente (1964)
- Ben Lawton
- 1.
- De Santis's Early Years: From Fondi to Rome
- 2.
- A Member of the Cinema Circle
- 3.
- A Dream Comes True: From Cinema to Ossessione
- Control code
- ocn244767769
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxv, 220 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781282008137
- Lccn
- 96154392
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt2jwws6
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)244767769
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Biographies
- Cinéma -- Italie -- Histoire
- De Santis, Giuseppe
- De Santis, Giuseppe, 1917-1997
- De Santis, Giuseppe, 1917-1997
- Electronic books
- Film
- Filmproduzent
- Films
- History
- Italien
- Italy
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Motion picture producers and directors -- Italy -- Biography
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures -- Italy -- History
- Neorealismus
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video | History & Criticism
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference
- Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -- Italie -- Biographies
- Realism in motion pictures
- Realism in motion pictures
- Réalisme au cinéma
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts
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