Neorealism

Question 1

Rossellini three black films

Answer 1

The White Ship (1941)
A Pilot Returns (1942)
Man of the Cross (1943)

Question 2

Rossellini’s black films were ======== but his =========== allowed him to focus on ============= rather than ===========

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Although they were endorsed by the government his creative control allowed him to focus on individual strength and courage rather than political ideology.

• Worked within the rules

Question 3

Post war Mussolini turned his back on

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Fascist rhetoric

Question 4

Rossellini started making ROC

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Two months after the liberation of Rome

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First Neorealist film

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Ossessione 1942

Question 6

Key films to know

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Ossessione 1942
La Peccatrice 1940
Toni 1935
The Grapes of Wrath 1940

Question 7

Ossessione

Answer 7

Italian

Question 8

La Peccatrice

Answer 8

Italian

Question 9

Toni

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French

Early example of Location shooting and non-professional actors

Question 10

The Grapes Of Wrath

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American

After the Great Depression - migrant workers

Question 11

Bicycle Market

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Piazza Vittorio

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The mass of the poor

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Church of Saints Nereo e Achille

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The brothel

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Via di Panico

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The stadium

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Stadio Nazionale

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Immigrants lived

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Val Melaina

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Poor District

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Prenestino

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Gestapo Headquaters

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Via Tasso

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Opening - documentary footage

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Piazza de spagna

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Pinas Shooting

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Via Montecuccoli

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Rome Open City year

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1945

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Rome Open City Director

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Rossellini

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Don Pietro

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Aldo Fabrizi

Question 23

Pina

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Anna Magnani

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Manfredi

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Marcello Pagliero

Question 25

Bergmann

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Harry Feist

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Maria

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Marina Mari

Question 27

Antonio

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Lamberto Maggiorani

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Bruno

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Enzo Staiola

Question 29

Maria

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Lianella Carell

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Antonios friend

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Baicco

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Ben Sillis

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"a demanding indictment of both the bureaucracy and division of wealth that divides in the country"

Question 32

Chistopher Wagstaff

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Theft takes place "The poor go to serve, beg or steal"

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Bazin the film is.. (BT)

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"The intimate witness of tragedy"

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Bazin (BRUNO)

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"Son returns to a father who has fallen from grace"

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Bazin (actors)

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"actorless cinema" actors become at 1 with the character (they are 1)

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Location shooting is ......

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An objective presentation

Question 37

Rossellini .... divides ......

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Divides his film into ideologically weighted spaces with moral connotations

Question 38

Rossllini .... contrasts

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Real Exteriors and Tenement interiors with | Theatrical studio interiors (Nazis & marina )

Question 39

Rossellini shows solidarity with

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mant shades of the anti-fascist regime

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Rossellini had commitment to

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shooting the suffering proletarian lives in urban locations

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Rossellini said that ROC was a response

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"response to the genuine need to see men for what they are"

Question 42

Pina is a ...

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moral example

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Pins death was ...

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poignant

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Neorealism records..

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human existence and human life

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ROC there is overt and ....

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omnipresent religious imagery

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in ROC there is a defined

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good and evil within the story- getting a feel for the era

Question 47

The character of marina

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``` sexually promiscuous class traitor drug addict "scape goat" implicit gay characteristics ```

Question 48

Boys watch Don Pietros death

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Prematurely ages the boys | subplot - brutalisation of children born into war and totalitarianism

Question 49

Fellini - a way of seeing...

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"a way of seeing reality without prejudice"

Question 50

ROC has interwoven stories making it

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episodic

Question 51

ROC was the biggest grossing film of

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1945-46 season in Italy

Question 52

Two established actors preceding the film were (ROC)

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Aldo Fabrizi and Anna Magnani

Question 53

Three stages of Rossellini's career

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1) War Films 2) NEorealism 3) Spiritual and symbolic - expressionistic (e.g. Fear 1954)

Question 54

Seven Key features of Neorealism

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``` Location Shooting Natural Lighting Non-professional actors Local Voices Naturalistic Editing Naturalistic Cinematography Contemporary subject matter ```

Question 55

Rossellini and De Sica were:

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Humanist rather than overtly political

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BT ANDRE BAZIN

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"A walk through Rome"

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Bicycle thieves shows the characters around Rome and constantly

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mobile (constant mobility)

Question 58

Urban life is depicted as brutalising in which key film>

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La Peccatrice

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Religious P@@@@@@@@

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Paraphernalia

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Homophobia

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Sexual Heterodoxy

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De Sica about Lamberto Maggiorani

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“The way he moved, the way he sat down, his gestures with those hands of a working man and not of an actor … everything about him was perfect”.