Rome Open City: Roma Citta Aperta - Brossura

Forgacs, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0851708048 ISBN 13: 9780851708041

Casa editrice: British Film Inst, 2000

Riassunto

This study examines Rome Open City and its place in Roberto Rossellini's career. The film is based on events that took place in Nazi occupied Italy 1944, one year before the film was made. The author argues that the film has value both as a commerorative piece and as a documentary record.

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Informazioni sull'autore

David Forgacs is Professor of Italian at University College London.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Otto Preminger said the history of the cinema was divided into two eras: one before and one after "Rome Open City," Made in 1945, the film is based on events that took place in Rome just one year before, during the Nazi occupation and the resistance. It made a huge impact on its release, launched the international reputation of its director, Roberto Rossellini, and came to be seen as the founding work of Italian neorealism. In this original study, David Forgacs re-examines the film and its place in Rossellini's career. He reconstructs its production history, its relationship to the events that inspired it and the time in which it was made. He argues that the film has great value as a commemoration and a documentary record even as it rhetorically reshapes events, people and places into patriotic myth.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: British Film Inst
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0851708048
• ISBN 13: 9780851708041
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 79
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile