Neorealism represents a short but no less influential tradition in world film. The period just after the end of the Second World War was a witness to the glorification of Italian cinema and its influence abroad. As much as it may seem that Italy experienced its prime from so-called zero, the fact is that realistic aesthetics has at the beginning of neorealistic filmmakers in Italy an already long tradition. The institutional foundation of Italian film, functioning in the fascist government period, enabled quick entry onto the internationally successful post-war wave.

The core of our course will be neorealistic cinema which makes up a small and even more usually commercially successful part of the period in the ascent of Italian film production.

A deciding factor for evaluating the post-war films of Rossellini, de Sica and others will be internationally enthusiastically reception of those authors as well as a reflection upon their methods. Neorealism will have an indisputable influence on some Hollywood creators, some later European film of the 1960s and interesting will be its reflection in the works of further generations of Italian filmmakers (Pasolini, Bertolucci).

Lecture range:

- the period before 1945; structure of the Italian film industry; fascism, Mussolini's propoganda and film; Leo Longanesi and his manifest; Alessandro Blasetti, Augusto Genina, Francesco de Robertis; formal means and topical limits

- „Classical“ period of neo-realism (cca. 1945-1953); aesthetics and history; Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti

- Neorealism and Hollywood genres; Luigi Zampa, Alberto Lattuada, Giuseppe de Santis, Pietro Germ. Critique and audience reception of neorealism in Italy and abroad; Andre Bazin.

- New impulses to Italian Cinema of the 50s; Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini.

- Influence of neorealism on Hollywood and the French New Wave. References to neorealism in later cinema. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Ermanno Olmi.

Bazin, André. What is Cinema? (volume 2). University of California Press, 2005. [Nebo jakékoli jiné vydání.]

Bondanella, Peter. Italian Cinema: From Neorealism to the Present. Continuum, New York 2001.

Sorlin, Pierre. Italian National Cinema 1896-1996. Routledge, London, 2001.

Shiel, Mark. Italian neorealism: rebuilding the cinematic city. Wallflower Press, 2006.

Testa, Carlo. Italian Cinema and Modern European Literatures, 1945-2000. Praeger Publishers, 2002.

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