Italian neorealism

surrounding them by glamor. The lighting is once again high-key to represent this as well. In Stranger Than Paradise, an independent film, it wouldn’t be unlikely that each actor’s clothing is their actual clothing. This would make the film similar to Italian neorealism, which is telling as the New American Cinema movement relies on many of the same principles as it, the most similar being authenticity. The authenticity desired by the New American Cinema movement at the time is also shown in the…

Neo-realism was a movement that was significant in Italy in the wake of the Second World War, as filmmakers sought to break away from the propagandistic cinematic traditions that had dominated the Italian film industry under Mussolini’s fascist rule. This movement ‘saw several filmmakers aiming to reveal contemporary social conditions’ (Bordwell and Thompson, 2012: 483 – 484) and in Bicycle Thieves (1948) specifically, De Sica focuses on the issue of the rising unemployment and poverty in…

Accompanying with three films indeed marked a new beginning in French cinema and then in the wold, The 400 Blows By Truffaut and Breathless by Godard, as well Hiroshima, mon amour (1952) by Alian Resnais. I will try to explain part of this movement in cinema and what made it so famous. The main person in this amazing movement is Jean-Luc Godard who he is a French-Swiss film director, known for his prominence in the New Wave film movement in France during the 1950s and 1960s. In this…