THE PLACE OF ANTONIONI IN NEO-REALISM ITALIAN CINEMA
Introduction
The Italian neorealism is a film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors for secondary and sometimes primary roles which lasted from about 1943 to 1952. According to Piepergerdes (2007) assert that the “emerging out of the ashes of Fascism, Italian Neorealist films were inexorably tied to the social, political, and economic reorganization of the nation in the immediate postwar years and coupled with the advent of new cinematic techniques that characterized the genre (the use of non-actors, natural lighting, on-location shooting, and the absence of melodrama), the reassertion of local and regional realities in Neorealist films marked a sharp break from Fascist-era depictions of a national ideal”.
Based on the historical perspective, specifically the early 20th century, Italy had gone through several huge changes, noticeably the founding of the Fascist Party in 1919 by Benito Mussolini and he had already came to power and his dictatorship was in place …show more content…
For example, best known Italian Neo Realism film is Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica), which tells a story about a poor man that is in need of a bike for his new job. Such Italian neorealism film depicted real-life situation, so that the audience can capture the realist fashion and the location of the scene are not done in studios but in the streets of Rome. The neorealism film adopted a documentary visual style. The neorealism films were distinguished by the non-professional actors for authenticity of the stories in a realist fashion. These films adopted a conversational speech, not literary dialogue and a pronoun feature is that Italian Neo-Realism never had a happy ending when the film is
Introduction
The Italian neorealism is a film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and working class, filmed on location, frequently using nonprofessional actors for secondary and sometimes primary roles which lasted from about 1943 to 1952. According to Piepergerdes (2007) assert that the “emerging out of the ashes of Fascism, Italian Neorealist films were inexorably tied to the social, political, and economic reorganization of the nation in the immediate postwar years and coupled with the advent of new cinematic techniques that characterized the genre (the use of non-actors, natural lighting, on-location shooting, and the absence of melodrama), the reassertion of local and regional realities in Neorealist films marked a sharp break from Fascist-era depictions of a national ideal”.
Based on the historical perspective, specifically the early 20th century, Italy had gone through several huge changes, noticeably the founding of the Fascist Party in 1919 by Benito Mussolini and he had already came to power and his dictatorship was in place …show more content…
For example, best known Italian Neo Realism film is Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica), which tells a story about a poor man that is in need of a bike for his new job. Such Italian neorealism film depicted real-life situation, so that the audience can capture the realist fashion and the location of the scene are not done in studios but in the streets of Rome. The neorealism film adopted a documentary visual style. The neorealism films were distinguished by the non-professional actors for authenticity of the stories in a realist fashion. These films adopted a conversational speech, not literary dialogue and a pronoun feature is that Italian Neo-Realism never had a happy ending when the film is