Italian neorealism

budgets dictated certain stylistic features in French New Wave, many have linked the style to Italian Neorealism. The resounding difference between the two is that the New Wave is almost entirely apolitical. In Italy the cheap productions were due to the economic breakdown suffered after the war, and the sparse film style was both a fiscal necessity and an artistic reflection of the living conditions of the Italian people. French New Wave, by contrast, has been described as “a bourgeois cinema…

Bicycle Thieves is a 1948 Italian film that follows a poor working-class man named Antonio Ricci. Antonio lives in Rome in the post-World War II era. Antonio, a family man, is desperately looking for a job, like many other men. He is finally offered a position that brings hope to his family which is comprised of his wife Maria, young son Bruno, and his infant baby. The hope of his family is soon diminished when Antonio’s bike was stolen from him on his first day of work. Most of the movie…

worked in New York's Garment District. His father was a clothes presser and an actor, and his mother was a seamstress and an actress. His father's parents emigrated from Polizzi Generosa, in the province of Palermo, Sicily, and his mother was also of Italian descent. Her parents, too, were from Palermo. Scorsese was raised in a devoutly Catholic environment. As a boy, he had asthma and could not play sports or do any activities with other children and so his parents and his older brother would…

The rudimentary style, taking notable visual cues from Italian Neorealism, functions to showcase high realism in the ongoing drama in LaMotta’s life. One notable instance of this style operates in the kitchen scene that occurs after the montage of Jake LaMotta’s “successful” period in the mid-1940s. The editing restricts…

the 20th century, its continuing relevance in the present makes it an interesting topic of discussion. Bicycle Thieves is an Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica released in 1948. This film is widely regarded as one of the best films of the 20th century and has been applauded for the realistic portrayal of post-war Italy and its effect on the lower class of the Italian society. Bicycle Thieves is categorised…

state repression. The latter part of the essay will then be used to identify the similarities that can be drawn between the films of Iranian New Wave and those examined previously in the module, focusing primarily on the cinematic influences of Italian neorealism thereafter, Nouvelle Vague and the British New Wave that helped to inspire a generation of new directors to develop and thus transform contemporary Iranian cinema. Before the rise of the “New Wave” genre, Iranian…

Neorealism is a movement especially in Italian filmmaking characterized by the simple direct depiction of lower-class life. De Sica's finest achievement is bringing the previously ignored working classes to the screen. His primary aim in the Bicycle Thieves was to use the camera to show how people lived. The non-professional actors give fine performances and lend the film a documentary-like air, even though the narrative itself is fictional. A crowd forms in front of a government employment…

historical and cultural conditions that surround it. The writer must distinguish what makes a particular film different from those of another culture from the same time period (Corrigan, 2015). The Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948) is an example of Italian neorealism which was popular for a short time after World War II. The war devastated Italy and poverty was commonplace. The studios were destroyed so filming in the streets was imperative which partly gave rise to neo realism partially. Film…

All Film Éire films must be filmed on location and the use of purpose build sets or green screen is prohibited, this is similar to both Dogma 95 and Italian Neorealism. However unlike Dogma 95 any props that are required may be brought to the set for use in the film. 4. All of the film’s imagery must be captured on camera and the use of on lens filters are permitted, however the use of computer software to…

able to create that conversation. But, with the growth of the genre, directors and producers have been able to expand and create storylines that can touch upon different cultures in order to capture all types of angles. For example, the use of the Italian culture has been widely popular in the mafia genre. But, movies such as The Departed use the Irish culture and Scarface expands on the Cuban culture to portray the background of the setting for the film. This simple technique of being able to…